By davidcarrington on Skatehive
In my previous post (https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@davidcarrington/blockstream-satellite-setup-uk-edition), I described how I set up a receiver for the Blockstream Satellite bitcoin data stream. That's all very nice, but I wanted to actually use it for something useful. I'd been interested in the Samourai Dojo full node for some time, and using their super easy to follow instructions, already set one up on an old desktop PC running Ubuntu that I had lying around. The Dojo setup contains its own bitcoind running in a Docker container, which by defualt will download the entire Bitcoin blockchain over a Tor connection. If you're extra paranoid/security-concious, why not modify the Dojo node to recieve the blockchain over satellite instead! If you're using a reasonably powerful machine with more than 4GB RAM, you can probably run the Dojo and satellite receiver on the same physical box. Why do this? Well if you've already set up a Bitcoin satellite node and want to run a Dojo (which I highl