I recently started Blockchain and crypto. I started with ethereum and now on bitcoin. Today I run bitcoin daemon and while i was figuring out some other api related stuff related to bitcoin-cli, I lost about 110gb of data in just like 4 or 5 or max 6 hours.
I just have 4gb left for the entire month. My job is to just create a node for bitcoin and check if data can be retreived from those nodes using curl.
I am using ubuntu20 mint. If there is any config or something i can do about it.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks in advance
I just got the solution, this is happening because I was trying to sync a bitcoin node that will sync around 400GB of data(approx) as mentioned by @David. So the solution to it was to make my bitcoin node, a test node it can be done by either making the testnet=1 or regtest=1. After this my bitcoin.conf file looks like this
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=password
testnet=1
[test]
rpcbind=127.0.0.1
rpcport=18332
or if you want to use regtest then
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=Password
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
regtest=1
[regtest]
rpcbind=127.0.0.1
rpcport=18443
Make sure you use only one(either regtest or testnode). More details about options in config file can be found here.