Bootstrap Installation

Bootstrap installation instructions

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QT/GUI Wallets

  1. Close/shutdown your wallet.

  2. Navigate to the NIX data directory.

  3. Delete blocks and chainstate directories.

  4. Unzip contents of the bootstrap .zip file to the NIX data directory.

  5. Restart your wallet.

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Default data directory locations Windows: C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\roaming\nix (you may have to enter %appdata% in your search bar to find this directory unless you have Windows set to show hidden directories)

Linux: ~/.nix

MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/nix

CLI Wallet

First, stop the wallet and delete the blocks and chainstate directories. Though not necessarily required, you might also want to delete the peers and banlist files.

nix-cli stop
rm -r ~/.nix/{blocks,chainstate,peers.dat,banlist.dat}
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NOTE: If you used Crypto Sharks' script to install, use "systemctl stop NIX" instead of "nix-cli stop"

You can use wget or gdown to download the file..

wget

If your system does not have wget and unzip already installed (commands assume Ubuntu Linux):

gdown

If your system does not have python-pip, gdown, and unzip already installed (commands assume Ubuntu Linux):

Restart your wallet.

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NOTE: If you used Crypto Sharks' script to install, use "systemctl start NIX" instead of "nixd &"

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