Comments on: GBW-NODE : Gales Bitcoin Wallet Node verified acquisition, build, install and run in 21ish short, simple steps.

By: The simplest way yet to fetch Bitcoin code « Fixpoint

The simplest way yet to fetch Bitcoin code « Fixpoint — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:19:59 +0000

[...] most clearly when I found myself surprised when a recipe Robinson posted a few weeks later featured needless typing out of voluminous, error-prone and unmemorable magic strings at the CLI. The idea with our training program is to expand your mind and options; this necessarily involves [...]

By: Gales Bitcoin Wallet (re)release « Fixpoint

Gales Bitcoin Wallet (re)release « Fixpoint — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 08:53:05 +0000

[...] A full walk through a rather manual sort of GBW node installation process from zero. [...]

By: A JWRD desktop aiming for open graphics « Dorion Mode

A JWRD desktop aiming for open graphics « Dorion Mode — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 20:36:34 +0000

[...] F2A85M motherboard. I added the Samsung SSD because I also plan to test syncing a Bitcoin node and GBW-node with this set [...]

By: Robinson Dorion

Robinson Dorion — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 14:57:24 +0000

Thank you, fixed.

By: Diana Coman

Diana Coman — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 08:31:44 +0000

The links are broken for Jacob's articles 2-6 on GBW-node as they are published in 2020, not in 2019.

By: Robinson Dorion

Robinson Dorion — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 20:45:32 +0000

Thank you! Updated.

By: How To Test gbw-node By Viewing The First Ever Transaction Containing a p2pkh Address « whaack

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 18:45:20 +0000

[...] was able to show a balance for an address that had received some bitcoins. Dorion had done a similar exercise, except he scanned up to block 634,000 which took about 24 [...]

By: whaack

whaack — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 22:25:25 +0000

In step 18 the links are missing a _genesis suffix:

http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/v/gbw-node/gbw-node_genesis.vpatch
http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/v/gbw-node/gbw-node_genesis.vpatch.jfw.sig

By: Robinson Dorion

Robinson Dorion — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 20:35:54 +0000

That is absolutely correct and thanks for pointing it out. I've updated the article with a note close to the top. TRB remains a bit convulted, but at least the prior buildroot dependency has now been removed with Gales Linux + the bitcoin_system_compiler.vpatch.

By: Diana Coman

Diana Coman — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 20:13:22 +0000

For those who already have a TRB-compatible node running and up to date, it may help a notice at the very beginning that they can basically just skip all the way to step 18 - and from there it all gets quite clear and simple anyway!

In other words, GBW-node itself is straightforward to install and use but it assumes a TRB-compatible node and the process for getting *that* part up and running is currently quite convoluted, to say the least.