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StealthSend edited this page May 22, 2026 · 9 revisions

This page has instructions for bootstrapping a Stealth mainnet daemon. Below these instructions is specific information about the bootstrap file itself.

Summary

Instructions

  1. Ensure your Stealth source directory is up to date, for example do one of the following:

  2. Make the newest StealthCoind (see the installation guide):

    • cd Stealth && mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make

  3. Install the daemon (optional, default is /usr/local/bin):

    • make install

  4. Stop the daemon (assuming we are in the build directory):

    • ./StealthCoind stop

  5. Delete old data from the Stealth data directory, e.g.:

    • cd ~/.StealthCoin

    • rm -rf blk*.dat database db.log debug.log txleveldb StealthCoin.pid peers.dat

  6. Download the bootstrap and unpack it using the download-stealth-bootstrap, which is put in the build directory and copied to the install location if make install was executed (assuming we changed back to the build directory):

    • ./download-stealth-bootstrap

  7. Ensure bootstrap.dat was extracted to your Stealth data directory, e.g.:

    • ls "${HOME}/.StealthCoin"

  8. Start the daemon

    • ./StealthCoind

Bootstrapping can take days.

You can check the bootstrap progress by tailing the log file:

tail -20 "${HOME}/.StealthCoin/debug.log

Latest Bootstrap Info

  • size: 4.23 GB

  • height: 33,308,800

  • block time: Sat Apr 4 05:58:47 2026 UTC

  • block hash: 02470925603249a64b78e3203ab697c6328bc939fcf387bfa602fd937c547f91

  • md5: b2e24af3114e3fa3ca0a5897631da4d1

  • sha256: 5abea6a8f50531ed9d32c9012815484c783ae9e28c1b6ced70e32daa642fdea5

Manual Download

The bootstrap can be downloaded manually using https://tinyurl.com/stealthbootstrap

If you want to make your own bootstrap, the linearized hash list corresponding to this bootstrap is at https://tinyurl.com/stealthhashlist (sha256: 110872fa6372e4cfee9a7a9d61db4c27a1ace1226b9fdfac44a5db162c1a1eb0, 1.15 GB).

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