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Bitcoin Private is a Bitcoin and Zclassic fork which uses ZK-SNARK technology for privacy and fungibility.
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Fork-instructions.md #117

Closed irishismyname closed 6 years ago

irishismyname commented 6 years ago

A little confused by the fork instructions. I got through the build/run of the daemon and I let it run for a few seconds before downloading the UTXO snapshot (mistake?).

Then I ran: cd ~/.btcprivate/ curl https://s3.amazonaws.com/btcp.snapshot/utxo_snapshot.tar.gz | tar xvz

This is where I'm getting lost, because after this it says to run: mkdir ~/.btcprivate touch ~/.btcprivate/btcprivate.conf

Of course I get the error saying the folder already exists...

So then I run the daemon and it seems to start from scratch downloading blocks and verifying transactions. Was I supposed to point the daemon to the downloaded files? Was I supposed to move them?

tedwardd commented 6 years ago

Of course I get the error saying the folder already exists...

@irishismyname The mkdir ~/.btcprivate step should probably have gone before the cd ~/.btcprivate step (otherwise you wouldn't have the ~/.btcprivate dir, right?) :)

Was I supposed to point the daemon to the downloaded files? Was I supposed to move them?

I tried a few variations of things to try to use the chainstate files from the desktop wallet on my mining pool node. In doing this, I had also removed ~/.btcprivate/uxto_snapshot. btcpd ultimately core dumped when attempting to start up complaining that this directory was missing. So, to answer your question, I think the daemon expects it there automatically.