nix-bitcoin
A collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security. (by fort-nix)
nix-portable
Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured (by DavHau)
| nix-bitcoin | nix-portable | |
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| 4 | 11 | |
| 450 | 711 | |
| 1.8% | - | |
| 8.4 | 7.8 | |
| 15 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| Nix | Nix | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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nix-bitcoin
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-bitcoin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-27.
- Nix-Bitcoin: A collection of Nix packages for easily installing Bitcoin nodes
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Node Resiliency using VM & Snapshots
NixOS and https://nixbitcoin.org/ makes the need for "platform recovery" obsolete.
- A bit of history for the new comers. BitcoinCash was the result of a failed Chinese miner take-over of Bitcoin.
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Podcast with anonymous nix-bitcoin dev
nix-bitcoin repo: https://github.com/fort-nix/nix-bitcoin
nix-portable
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-portable.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-29.
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An independent package manager that every hacker deserves
There is also nix-portable (https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable), which is basically a drop-in replacement for normal nix that does everything required for no-root operation by itself when needed. Just put the single binary in your PATH and it's ready.
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Docker's deleting Open Source images and here's what you need to know
level (/nix/store/)
Yes, for cache hits to happen it has to be this way as far as I remember.
There is a project called nix-portable though that I've seen some HPC users report success with:
https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable
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The Determinate Nix Installer
Great work Graham and team, I'll be switching to it on OSX.
I wonder if you took a look at some of the modifications done by portable-nix (https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable), most important ones being:
a) Allowing user to choose the location of the nix folder (for example $HOME/.nix) by using bwrap or proot
- is it possible to install the nix package manager with no root privleges?
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Day 15 with silverblue, loving how rock stable the whole system feels! Exactly the kind of distro i've always wanted.
you can install it and forget about it. yeah the major downside is that you need to disable selinux unless you use nix portable.
- I found this
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I made a nix-portable integration for direnv for my friend who doesn't want to install nix on his machine 😈
Yeah sadly nix-portable doesn't support macOS because of missing kernel features. They are also thinking about docker fallback though: https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable/issues/23 🤔😋
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Introducing Riff, a Nix-based tool for automatically providing external dependencies to Rust projects
There is this: https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable but I agree we need an official solution
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We want to make Nix better
Not entirely true, there are many ways in which you can use a custom location and still take advantage of the binary cache. You can do it with chroot, file system namespaces, bind mounts and so on. There's also a nice user friendly tool that does exactly this [1].
[1]: https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable
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Nix Development Container
This is cool! In a similar vein, it's worth mentioning nix-portable is a thing. Same idea of containerization except it avoids docker. https://github.com/DavHau/nix-portable
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nix-bitcoin and nix-portable you can also consider the following projects:
nixos-raspberry-pi-cluster - A user-guide to create a Raspberry Pi (3B+, 4) cluster under NixOS and managed by NixOps
dream2nix - Simplified nix packaging for various programming language ecosystems [maintainer=@DavHau]