josie on Nostr: the output of gen-bitcoin-conf is shipped with the binaries. so every binary release ...

the output of gen-bitcoin-conf is shipped with the binaries. so every binary release now comes with a fully commented out bitcoin.conf file that is guaranteed to be correct for that release e.g up to date options, accurate help text. if you found an example where it wasn’t, let me know!

gen-bitcoin-conf takes the output and documentation directly from bitcoind —help, which is the source of truth.

i agree the comments could be better, but it should be documented in bitcoind —help. otherwise, we end up with multiple sources of truth, and a massive maintenance burden.

in fact, the old “documented” example was out of date and in some cases completely incorrect, which is why i wrote the gen-bitcoin-conf script