DietPi Software | Bitcoin Full Node

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Description
Add a bitcoin full node implementation, simply to support the bitcoin blockchain infrastructure and provide e.g. the possibility for analyses on the blockchain. But this shall not add wallet or mining functionality.

Formal software information

• Software title | bitcoin core
• Short description | The bitcoin's reference implementation.
• Official URL (if available) | https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/
• GitHub URL (if available) | https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
• (Official) install documentation | ---

OR

• Software title | btcd
• Short description | An alternative full node bitcoin implementation written in Go (golang).
• Official URL (if available) | https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd
• GitHub URL (if available) | https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd
• (Official) install documentation |

Are there similar/alternative software titles available with DietPi-Software?

• No

What makes your requested software better than the above solutions, if available?

• [there are no similar/alternative software titles available with DietPi-Software]

How can DietPi make the installation easier or compatible, than following the install instructions or do APT installation, if available?

• expect an external USB HDD or SSD with an specific identifier (e.g. BLOCKCHAIN) to be provided by the user
  OR
  initially ask user for an external USB HDD or SSD and prepare as described before
• HDD or SSD shall be always automatically mounted to the same location, e.g. mnt/dietpi_bitcoin
  (cmp. e.g. https://github.com/raspiblitz/raspiblitz or https://raspibolt.org/guide/bitcoin/bitcoin-client.html)

Can you provide the installation steps that you would suggest DietPi-Software to do?

• install bitcoin core
• provide an default bitcoin.conf or btcd.conf (https://btcd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration.html) file with e.g.

...
[main]
datadir=mnt/dietpi_bitcoin
txindex=1

...

Are you willing to help maintaining the software installation, e.g. in case of needed setup changes due to updates etc.? This is not needed, but could speed up our decision to implement it, as man power is always a topic 😉.
Unfortunately, I do not have the skills for it yet.