An experimental bitcoin node written in Rust using the libbitcoinkernel library. The node just validates blocks, and does not serve blocks to the network. It is meant to showcase the limited initial API of the kernel library. It is not meant to be particularly performant, or robust against misbehaving peers.
For now, IBD is done from a single peer, selected from the DNS seed nodes. If the
connection to this peer happens to fail for some reason, a new peer will be selected.
A direct connection can also be selected from the command line. See --help for
this.
To run on e.g. signet:
cargo run --bin node --release -- --network signet
By default it will put data in the $HOME/.kernel-node directory.
Options:
Arguments:
--network Which Bitcoin network to use.
--datadir Data directory for blockchain and configuration.
--connect Connect only to this node (format: ip:port or hostname:port)