# Buidl BTC Node Operator

By [xiaorun.eth](https://paragraph.com/@xiaorun.eth) · 2024-07-16

node operator

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1\. bitcoin core
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### 1.1 download

`wget https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-22.0/bitcoin-22.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz`

### 1.2 edit config

`vim bitcoin.conf # Specify data directory datadir=/home/ubuntu/.bitcoin/data # Location of the auth cookie rpccookiefile=/home/ubuntu/.bitcoin/data/.cookie # Run in the background as a daemon and accept commands daemon=1 # Maintain a full transaction index, used by the getrawtransaction rpc txindex=1 # Accept public REST requests rest=1 # Accept command line and JSON-RPC commands server=1`

### 1.3 start server

`./bin/bitcoind --conf=/home/ubuntu/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf --daemon`

### 1.4 wait to sync block(～500G)

`tail -f /home/ubuntu/.bitcoin/data/debug.log 2023-03-02T03:17:27Z UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000000567e5374d59bed7ab18f65856599f4cef924e3fc2e923 height=778914 version=0x2ae44000 log2_work=94.033371 tx=810050282 date='2023-03-02T03:17:12Z' progress=1.000000 cache=68.8MiB(500391txo)`

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/aa95b3a905bd102abce7dd722e5f7633.png)

### 1.5 usage

`./bin/bitcoin-cli --rpccookiefile=/home/ubuntu/.bitcoin/data/.cookie getblockchaininfo`

![bitcoin-cli](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/e6650a6c3483ab9321d1efcc50a32270.jpg)

2\. ordinals
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### 2.1 download

`wget https://github.com/casey/ord/releases/download/0.5.1/ord-0.5.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz`

### 2.2 usage

`./ord --cookie-file /home/ubuntu/.bitcoin/data/.cookie -h **** ./ord --cookie-file /home/ubuntu/.bitcoin/data/.cookie wallet restore <MNEMONIC>`

![ord-cli](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/6c691caf63910b4fc9507045cf5f97a0.jpg)

![ord-sub](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/766e2588392c216f0ee9b29fbda0bf55.jpg)

### 2.3 inscribe

`inscription.txt { "p": "sns", "op": "reg", "name": "xiaorun.sats", } ./ord wallet inscribe <FILE> --fee-rate <FEE_RATE>`

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