Welcome to Issue #20 of the Bitseed Broadcast, a newsletter published by the Bitseed team to share important news for Bitcoin full node operators. We cover the latest in Bitcoin development, full node news, community events, and experimental projects that node operators may find of interest. Here’s the latest: New guide for updating[…]
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Updating Bitseed 3 to the latest version of Bitcoin Core
Bitseed 3 full nodes use Bitcoin Core to synchronize with the bitcoin network and validate the full blockchain history starting from the original genesis block mined by Satoshi Nakamoto. The following are instructions for updating Bitseed 3 to the latest version of Bitcoin Core. The procedure will stop bitcoind (the[…]
Announcing Bitseed 3 – Our Next Generation Plug-and-Play Bitcoin Full Node
You may have seen posts on social media about something new we’ve been working on at Bitseed. Since December, we have been quietly accepting and shipping orders for a new product. Today we are excited to officially announce Bitseed 3, the third-generation model of our popular plug-and-play bitcoin full node.[…]
Update to Bitcoin Core 0.15.0.1
The official release of Bitcoin Core 0.15.0.1 is now available. Documentation for this release is available on the Bitcoin Core project website here. The following are instructions for upgrading Bitseed to Bitcoin Core 0.15.0.1 from the ARM binary provided on the bitcoin.org website. These instructions add an upgrade script to the device. It[…]
Upgrade to Bitcoin Core 0.14.0
The official release of Bitcoin Core 0.14.0 is now available. Documentation for this release is available on the Bitcoin Core project website here. The following are instructions for upgrading Bitseed to Bitcoin Core 0.14.0. These instructions add an upgrade script to the device. It will delete your old binaries and replace them[…]
The Different Kinds of Bitcoin Full Nodes
In the bitcoin network, full nodes are the enforcers of consensus rules. A full node (short for “fully-validating bitcoin node) is a computer running the bitcoin software that validates all transactions and blocks that are sent through the network, ensuring that only valid transactions and blocks get added to the[…]
Bitseed Broadcast, Issue #19
Welcome to Issue #19 of the Bitseed Broadcast, a newsletter published by the Bitseed team to share important news for Bitcoin full node operators. We cover the latest in Bitcoin development, full node news, community events, and experimental projects that node operators may find of interest. If you have any news tips or[…]
Announcing Bitseed 2.1 – A New Bitcoin Web UI
When we first announced pre-orders for Bitseed v2 (Core and Lite) in April 2015, we promised our customers a new app that would give them more control over their Bitcoin nodes. We delivered on our promise, releasing version 2.0 of the Bitseed web interface for Linux when we began shipping Bitseed v2 pre-orders in August 2015. Since releasing Bitseed 2.0, we have[…]
Bitseed Broadcast, Issue #18
Welcome to Issue #18 of the Bitseed Broadcast, a newsletter published by the Bitseed team to share important news for Bitcoin full node operators. We cover the latest in Bitcoin development, full node news, community events, and experimental projects that node operators may find of interest. If you have any news tips or[…]
Self-hosting an OpenBazaar Store with Bitseed
This tutorial is published as part of our Bitseed Labs series. The instructions are likely to change or break over time as the underlying software packages and dependencies are updated. Users who wish to continue supporting this software for Bitseed are encouraged to send us updates to these instructions so that[…]