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Install DATUM on Alpine Linux (OCEAN, SHA256)

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Bitcoin Knots compiled from source for musl, and the DATUM Gateway built with apk (including argp-standalone), run directly on OpenRC-based Alpine.

This walkthrough follows OCEAN’s DATUM Setup Guide and the official datum_gateway README, step by step, with voice-over and subtitles.

Key settings

blockmaxsize=3985000
blockmaxweight=3985000
maxmempool=1000
blockreconstructionextratxn=1000000
blocknotify=killall -USR1 datum_gateway

Miners: stratum+tcp://your_datum_node_ip:23334, username = your Bitcoin payout address (optional .workername), password x. Failover: stratum+tcp://mine.ocean.xyz:3334.

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Install on Ubuntu

Bitcoin Knots from the official PPA and the DATUM Gateway built from the official OCEAN source, both running as systemd services.