Thanks @nextgencrypto

Am waiting to see how this chain works.. :)

Congratz m8! One step closer.
I can only imagine the headache this could be giving you... currently I am pulling the Docker p2p node in hopes of figuring out how to create an account through the cli_wallet (over a month and still waiting for my wife's new account here, with no help or support from support@steemit and even having timcliff contact them for me). The pull itself is painful - waiting and waiting for the sync, watching it hang up or throw timing/size errors, etc. Who knows how long it will take, and even if I will be able to create an account using it (may need full node, which I do not have the RAM or hardware for, or may even need to clone the whole damned thing - idk).
Thank You for your time and efforts, sure hoping it "pays off" well for you and all involved.

Well, you can always just use the script I just finished instead.

I doubt that you will be able to get an RPC node running without spending at least $200 on a dedicated server rent for a month or about$2000 bux on a system with 256Gb of memory (I dunno even where you buy such a thing, desktop motherboards usually top out at 64-128gb, probably need to go to specialist server suppliers for that).

If you just want to get a new account, you can always use anonsteem. Or you could ask @noganoo, at the discord, he made @calibrae using his own scripts, I'm sure he'd be happy to do it for you at cost, at least.

I am quite sure that you will feel like after all the headache it's worth just buying the account, but then again, you might learn something by trying to do it yourself. After all, Calibrae is going to be API compatible with the current state of things, and by God that API is gonna stay stable, or I will personally execute whoever tricks me into letting a merge be done that breaks the API. With a plastic spoon!

Also, it's paying off already just to see the fucktards squirm who are trying to suppress the visibility of my work. They are gonna have to do a lot to push down l0k1's reputation. None of the adversaries so far have enough rep to put a dint in this account's rep.

@l0k1, the man who completes tasks that even a 12 man team with 10s of millions of dollars cannot do.

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Thanks robocop

If nogalert's idiot bot comment below is visible, it should be flagged because who the fuck tells me who my friends are?

Time to run around the place watering plants, yet will have to look into these alternatives in a bit.
Don't think I have 2 years to let it sync....
https://s2.postimg.org/m8zby8aah/Screenshot_at_2017-08-18_12-58-08.png
And definitely don't want to burn up my lappy with it, pretty high system loads and seemingly only to increase....
https://s2.postimg.org/7eaqk20pl/Screenshot_at_2017-08-18_12-58-09.png
Keeping my eyes peeled, despite what those who disagree think or try to do.
TY

If a VPS with 50Gb memory and SSD can't sync even to 5 August in 8 days, I don't see how a laptop could manage.

IDK... just shooting from the hip on this really. Guess the initial numbers were a little off compared to the average after 6 hours.
With an avg. system load of 5.XX while having several tabs open in the browser (plus running top and gkrellm, etc.), I can see a dedicated pos like my lappy pulling it off. Though crunching on through the timing errors and forced disconnections by 'peers', still managed to sync a little over 6 GB of the 40'ish GB reportedly needed in 6 hours.
Ctrl+C'ed it though in search of those alternatives we talked about earlier (just let it run the 6 hours for shits n giggles).
According to
https://github.com/steemit/steem#dockerized-p2p-node
a half-way decent older lappy should at least be able to pull of the sync using the p2p Node pre-built Docker option. And at the avg rate of 1 GB per hour should take less than 2 days to completely sync.
Yet I digest, I am sure my ignorance is showing (not a bad thing if I learn something through it). Prbly no happy ending anyway as p2p (from what I understand) can only read the info relating to the blockchain, I don't think I can interact with it beyond that (no creating the account).

Quickstart
Just want to get up and running quickly? Try deploying a prebuilt dockerized container. Both common binary types are included.
Dockerized p2p Node
To run a p2p node (ca. 2GB of memory is required at the moment):

docker run
-d -p 2001:2001 -p 8090:8090 --name steemd-default
steemit/steem

docker logs -f steemd-default # follow along

Dockerized Full Node
To run a node with all the data (e.g. for supporting a content website) that uses ca. 14GB of memory and growing:

docker run
--env USE_WAY_TOO_MUCH_RAM=1 --env USE_FULL_WEB_NODE=1
-d -p 2001:2001 -p 8090:8090 --name steemd-full
steemit/steem

docker logs -f steemd-full

if you are just syncing with p2p node option set on, or even a witness, it should sync in about 2 days from scratch, and replay in 8-10 hours on a reasonably fast computer (at least 12gb memory).

also, all this problems the exchanges have with steemd - I could be wrong, but I believe that for simply executing trades and reading balances only the witness plugin is needed.

wait, how big has the block_log got now? Two weeks ago it was at 23gb. To be honest, I don't even want to know, really. I just know the abject lack of any real measures to stop spammy transactions is gonna take the whole network down pretty soon, within 3 months I reckon. When a machine like your laptop can't sync p2p on even a 100mbit connection within 3 days there could be a problem...

I wonder how bad it has to get before they realise they are gonna have to reset the chain?

Is it possible to setup the scripts on Centos 7 dedicated cpanel server? Better to setup a new account and setup everything localy instead as root?

It runs inside a chroot, thus it requires root.

I didn't write this script to help people run steemd on a server, I did it so that developers don't have to manually futz with their terrible code. I want to get to the task of fixing that terrible code sooner rather than later. I am aiming for a public beta release on Halloween.

Steemit locked me out of making contributions like this directly to their repository because they are a bunch of nincompoops who clearly don't care about the community and are happy to run the network into the ground as fast as they can and squeeze a little more money out before they make a dust trail into the sunset as they emigrate out of the USA where probably hundreds of people will be wanting their asses laid out for what they are doing here.

If you want to have access to a platform like steemit, in the near future, the only option is going to be Calibrae. Steemit cannot possibly keep running more than 3-5 months without requiring literal supercomputers to run the RPC nodes to run the website. That's what they are building, apparently, too.

There will be nobody able to run their own nodes within 3 months, unless you have a budget well over $300/month for servers

BTW, it's not giving me a headache at all. Seeing how badly it is written makes me quite sure that Calibrae is gonna completely trounce Steemit, in both market cap and userbase. I hate to think how much they are paying the coders who write steemit - cos I wouldn't pay them for what they have done.

When you are done with the Calibrae fork... do you think you can fork the planet (I think She's due for a reset as well). Lots of parallels, the addiction to consumption and convenience and damned the consequences. But again, I digest.
Work Work Work (busy day today, I imagine). I'm guessing you don't get much sleep (sleep, what's that?).

Over 100,000 new users here since I stepped in 2 months ago, nearing 400,000 total users soon (if not already, haven't looked in a bit); about 20-25,000 active users in any given 24 hour period (roughly 6%). This does reek of something amiss.
But you know... as long as those high-dollar self-upvotes keep working for those guys I guess the code is doing it's job.

I like to think that Steemit represents the state of the world now, and that there is a certain Magick in creating a model that represents the world as it should be, the congruence between it and the natural law, versus the disjointedness of the artificial worldview imposed on us for the profit of psychopaths.

I'm getting really good sleep actually. I have developed a new ritual, when I get up in the morning, first thing I do is something relatively strenuous. Last two days, in which I have been extremely productive, I climbed the stairs 13 stories up, and then back down. I actually have to go easy on my legs after doing that two days in a row. I will probably just wake up and do situps and pushups to substitute, but not slow, as fast as I can. The speed seems to be important in activating the dopamine.

And then, I sleep around 2-3 hours after sunset, about 9-10pm, and wake up again about 4-5am. It's an incredibly effective regime, you should try it. I sorta had some hints at the method from reading Jack Kruse, but he did not talk about doing the heavy exercise upon waking. I think this is key. Not just sun exposure early in the day, not just earthing. It might be that in particular for me, it is extra helpful because I have AD/HD...

lol. for them, yeah. But they are eroding the defence against their system becoming a clear example of a violation of securities laws the more things go along. They are trying to cheat their way to Facebook, just like Facebook cheated with help from Intelligence who immediately saw it as a way of expanding their data mining operations.

He's not a man. Would a man rely on others to pay his bills and put a roof over his head?

Nope, he'd get a fucking job and be able to support himself. THAT is a MAN. He's nothing but a worthless bum. Just like you!