setting up the user and filesystem

for a filesystem in created a ebs volume with 500GB magnetic storage (i know not ideal but cheaper). i assigned it to the ec2 instance (t2.micro), formatted and mounted it into the home directory of newly created btc user. all commands are ran as root. check disks with lsblk.

fsdisk /dev/xvdX
mkfs.ext4 /dev/xvdX
mkdir /home/btcnode
mount /dev/xvdX /home/btcnode
UUID=$(blkid | cut -d '"' -f 2 | tail -n 1)
echo "UUID=$UUID /home/btcnode ext4 defaults 0 2" >> /etc/fstab

create the user

useradd btcnode
passwd btcnode
chown btc:btc /home/btcnode

dependencies for bitcoin-core

apt install -y autoconf automake build-essential libtool autotools-dev pkg-config bsdmainutils \
  python3 libevent-dev libboost-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-test-dev \
  libgmp-dev libsqlite3-dev python3-mako net-tools zlib1g-dev libsodium-dev gettext

building bitcoin-core from the git repository

git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/ /home/btcnode/bitcoin_source
cd /home/btcnode/bitcoin_source
./autogen.sh
./configure --without-gui --without-miniupnpc
make
make install

building c-lighting from the git repository

echo "building c lightning..."
pip3 install --user mrkd mistune==0.8.4
git clone https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning.git /home/btcnode/lightning_source
cd lightning_source
./configure
make
make install

running the nodes

  • running bitcoind and lightningd manually 
    bitcoind &
./lightningd/lightningd &
./cli/lightning-cli help"
  • use initd scripts 
    TODO

install script

i created a install script for ubuntu server including everything i wrote here. i am also planning on extending this with more applikations like, lnbits, ride the lightning, and many more. Github link: install-bitcoin

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