Bitcoin full node and query server

Oct 13, 2025

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expatriotic is me17:28

I was building everything manually since the script failed. That also did not work. So trying ./install.sh again without sudo

./install.sh --prefix=$HOME/libbitcoin --build-boost --build-secp256k1 --disable-shared

Why does boost default to 1.89.0 though?

(edited)

otto02:01

Weird, it failed to find other nodes and stopped:

2025-10-13T02:00:16Z.0 Please wait while network is starting...                                          
2025-10-13T02:00:16Z.1 Candidate top [000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f:0].                                                                                                         
2025-10-13T02:00:16Z.1 Fork point (0) unassociated (0).                                                  
2025-10-13T02:00:16Z.1 Seeding because of insufficient (0 of 500) address quantity.                      
2025-10-13T02:00:16Z.1 Connecting to seed [seed.bitcoin.sipa.be:8333]                                    
2025-10-13T02:00:16Z.1 Connecting to seed [dnsseed.bluematt.me:8333]                                     
2025-10-13T02:00:16Z.1 Connecting to seed [dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr-list-of-p2p-nodes.us:8333]             
2025-10-13T02:00:16Z.1 Connecting to seed [seed.bitcoin.jonasschnelli.ch:8333]                           
2025-10-13T02:00:16Z.1 Connecting to seed [seed.btc.petertodd.net:8333]                                  
2025-10-13T02:00:16Z.1 Connecting to seed [seed.bitcoin.sprovoost.nl:8333]                               
2025-10-13T02:00:16Z.1 Connecting to seed [dnsseed.emzy.de:8333]                                         
2025-10-13T02:00:16Z.1 Connecting to seed [seed.bitcoin.wiz.biz:8333]                                    
2025-10-13T02:00:16Z.1 Connecting to seed [seed.mainnet.achownodes.xyz:8333]                             
2025-10-13T02:00:32Z.1 Failed to connect seed address [dnsseed.bluematt.me:8333] operation timed out     
2025-10-13T02:00:32Z.1 Failed to connect seed address [seed.bitcoin.wiz.biz:8333] operation timed out    
2025-10-13T02:00:32Z.1 Failed to connect seed address [seed.mainnet.achownodes.xyz:8333] operation timed out                                                                                                       
2025-10-13T02:00:32Z.1 Failed to connect seed address [dnsseed.emzy.de:8333] operation timed out         
2025-10-13T02:00:32Z.1 Failed to connect seed address [seed.btc.petertodd.net:8333] operation timed out  
2025-10-13T02:00:32Z.1 Failed to connect seed address [seed.bitcoin.sipa.be:8333] operation timed out    
2025-10-13T02:00:32Z.1 Failed to connect seed address [dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr-list-of-p2p-nodes.us:8333] operation timed out                                                                                       
2025-10-13T02:00:32Z.1 Failed to connect seed address [seed.bitcoin.jonasschnelli.ch:8333] operation timed out                                                                                                     
2025-10-13T02:00:32Z.1 Failed to connect seed address [seed.bitcoin.sprovoost.nl:8333] operation timed out                                                                                                         
2025-10-13T02:00:32Z.0 Node failed to start with error 'seeding unsuccessful'.                           
2025-10-13T02:00:32Z.1 Seed session complete.                                                            
2025-10-13T02:00:32Z.0 Please wait while network is stopping...