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Install DATUM on Ubuntu (CONVOY)

CONVOY Ubuntu 8:49

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

This walkthrough follows CONVOY’s Get Started guide, step by step, with voice-over and subtitles.

Key settings

maxmempool=1000
blockmaxweight=785000
blocknotify=killall -USR1 datum_gateway

Miners: stratum+tcp://your_gateway_ip:23334, username = your Bitcoin address, password x. Failover: stratum+tcp://mine.convoy.xyz:3333.

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Install on Debian

Bitcoin Knots via the PPA route from the CONVOY guide and CONVOY's DATUM Gateway built from source, both under systemd.

Install on Fedora

Bitcoin Knots from the official binaries, CONVOY's DATUM Gateway from source, and firewalld opened for miners.

Install on Arch Linux

Bitcoin Knots from the official binaries and CONVOY's DATUM Gateway built with pacman dependencies, both under systemd.

Install on Alpine Linux

Bitcoin Knots compiled from source for musl, and CONVOY's DATUM Gateway built with apk, run directly on OpenRC-based Alpine.

Install on StartOS

No terminal needed: add the mempool.guide community registry, install Bitcoin Knots and the #pow-tagged Datum Gateway, and configure them in the StartOS UI.