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A short trek to Taal Volcano Crater

Taal Volcano Crater
Taal Volcano Crater

From Talisay Batangas, rent a private boat going to Taal Volcano Island. It will cost you PhP1500 for a round trip boat ride and additional PhP500 for “life guard” fee. And from the port of Taal Volcano Island, you may rent a horse worth PhP1500/each or hire a local guide for PhP1000/group and additional “Tourist Fee” PhP50/person. Once settled, they will give you tickets going to the trail. You will reach the viewing deck after an hour of dusty trail. Bring face mask because you will share the trail with horses with tourist on it.

In the viewing deck, try the fresh cold buko for PhP100 and ask your guide to bring you to “pulang lupa” peak. 😉 Enjoy the view! Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints 😉

By the way, Also prepare another PhP50 for the “bridge” fee. ;0

Talisay, Batangas. Lot’s of friendly people and very accommodating.

Lunch at Milan’s Native Foods Restaurant and Grill. This is my new favorite Bulalohan! 🙂

.. to Taal Volcano

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Compiling Bitcoind on Raspberry Pi

bitcoin-logo-plain

A short step-by-step on how to compile Bitcoind on Raspberry Pi.

First thing you need to do is to increase the RPi’s Swap Size

$ sudo vim /etc/dphys-swapfile

Modify the line to change the setting from 100Mb to 500Mb.
CONF_SWAPSIZE=100
to
CONF_SWAPSIZE=500

Apply the changes
$ sudo dphys-swapfile setup
$ sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff
$ sudo dphys-swapfile swapon

Check the new swap size using free command
$ free

Update your Raspberry Pi’s packages
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

Install all dependencies needed to compile the bitcoind
$ sudo apt-get install checkinstall subversion git git-core build-essential

$ sudo apt-get install libtool autotools-dev autoconf

$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libdb++-dev libminiupnpc-dev

$ sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-all-dev

After successfully installing the packages, go to your preferred directory for downloading the bitcoind source code to compile.
$ cd ~
$ mkdir source
$ cd source
$ git clone git://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
$ cd ~/source/bitcoin/src

Prepare the bitcoin source code from github
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --without-gui

Now… grab something to eat or to watch while compiling. It’s gonna take a long while to compile.

After a few (maybe hours)…  you may now configure your bitcoin.conf and run
$  ~/source/bitcoin/src/bitcoind -daemon

 

Watch out for my next post on setting-up bitcoind (bitcoin.conf settings)

Update:

For minimal configuration… create this file in ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf


server=1
rpcuser={insert your preferred username}
rpcpassword={insert your preferred long hash password for security}
rpctimeout=30
rpcport=8332
gen=0
allowreceivebyip=1

 

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