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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: xpat on April 14, 2013, 02:01 am
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Trying to install bitcoin qt on whonix and I', having some difficulties, can anyone offer some advice/ point me in the direction of a tutorial?
Or, if there's another offline wallet you recommend I'm open for suggestions
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Do you really want to download the entire block chain over Tor? It's possible, but it will take days before you have a functional wallet.
You might want to try Electrum. There's a thread here about running it in Tails. A lot of that information should apply to running it in Whonix.
In any case, if you still want to use bitcoin-qt in Whonix, what is the problem? Download the tar.gz file from the web site, extract it, and run the 32 bit binary that it contains.
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Also, how big is your virtual disk drive in Whonix? The block chain is 6 GB. You'll need that much free space now, and really more like 20 GB going forward.
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Yeah, crashed my VM trying to download the blockchain, Electrum is an awesome suggestion though, thanks Astor
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I tested many Linuxes and non is stable with Bitcoin QT. Good thing is that after it crash you can take wallet.dat file and move it windows and it will work, so your coins not lost.
it is not good idea also to use alternative valets, with size of the block changed, no guaranty it will work.
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I tested many Linuxes and non is stable with Bitcoin QT.
That may be true of the specialist/experimental distros, like Tails and Whonix, and especially distros running inside a VM, but the client runs well on mainstream distros like Debian and Ubuntu. In fact, I would venture to say that most of the bitcoin network is composed of bitcoind running on Linux servers.