You can order a fully synced bitcoind node
Bitcoin Core in FreeBSD jail with root access and completely dedicated datadir
After first login, consider to replace default issued ssh access key and set password for user freebsd and/or root if required.
SSH password authentication is disabled by default
Before you start, you may want to install text editor with pkg install -y nano
Inside instance you can execute bitcoin-cli commands
aladfar:/root@[13:08] # bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo
{
"chain": "main",
"blocks": 661744,
"headers": 661744,
"bestblockhash": "000000000000000000020f29eb5c90e6e48ce687b546d3fb499ab6d977af1c07",
"difficulty": 18670168558399.59,
"mediantime": 1608206293,
"verificationprogress": 0.9999949501179342,
"initialblockdownload": false,
"chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000016f90c9acb758a775a014c77",
"size_on_disk": 359058733092,
"pruned": false,
"softforks": {
"bip34": {
"type": "buried",
"active": true,
"height": 227931
},
"bip66": {
"type": "buried",
"active": true,
"height": 363725
},
"bip65": {
"type": "buried",
"active": true,
"height": 388381
},
"csv": {
"type": "buried",
"active": true,
"height": 419328
},
"segwit": {
"type": "buried",
"active": true,
"height": 481824
}
},
"warnings": ""
}
Edit with text editor (i.e. nano) the configuration of bitcoind in `
aladfar:/root@[13:08] # ls -la /usr/local/etc/
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1232 Dec 17 13:06 bitcoin.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 704 Oct 4 21:15 bitcoin.conf.sample
...
To apply configuration, stop and start bitcoind
aladfar:/root@[13:09] # bitcoin-cli stop
Bitcoin Core stopping
aladfar:/root@[13:10] # service bitcoind start
Performing sanity check on bitcoind configuration:
Bitcoind is not running
Starting bitcoind:
Check status:
aladfar:/root@[13:11] # ps -aux | grep bitcoin
bitcoin 32845 172.3 1.3 2529252 855236 - SNsJ 13:11 0:15.17
/usr/local/bin/bitcoind -conf=/usr/local/etc/bitcoin.conf -datadir=/var/db/bitcoin
Access bitcoind datadir
aladfar:/root@[13:11] # ls -la /var/db/bitcoin/
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 0 Nov 3 17:14 .lock
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 0 Nov 3 17:15 .walletlock
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 37 Nov 3 17:15 banlist.dat
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 6 Dec 17 13:11 bitcoind.pid
drwx------ 3 bitcoin bitcoin 4735 Dec 17 08:10 blocks
drwx------ 2 bitcoin bitcoin 2142 Dec 17 13:11 chainstate
drwx------ 2 bitcoin bitcoin 3 Dec 17 13:11 database
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 0 Nov 3 17:15 db.log
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 10312426 Dec 17 13:12 debug.log
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 247985 Dec 17 13:10 fee_estimates.dat
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 32179889 Dec 17 13:10 mempool.dat
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 4140208 Dec 17 13:10 peers.dat
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 1490944 Dec 17 13:11 wallet.dat