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Add comments for configuration file settings
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@ -354,17 +354,40 @@ $ /bin/mkdir ~user1/.bitcoin
This is the core bitcoin.conf file, which is appropriate for an unpruned testnet setup:
```
$ cat >> ~user1/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf << EOF
# Accept command line and JSON-RPC commands
server=1
# Set database cache size in megabytes (4 to 16384, default: 450)
dbcache=1536
# Set the number of script verification threads (-6 to 16, 0 = auto, <0 = leave that many cores free, default: 0)
par=1
# Set to blocksonly mode, sends and receives no lose transactions, instead handles only complete blocks
blocksonly=1
# Tries to keep outbound traffic under the given target (in MiB per 24h), 0 = no limit (default: 0)
maxuploadtarget=137
# Maintain at most <n> connections to peers (default: 125)
maxconnections=16
# Username for JSON-RPC connections
rpcuser=bitcoinrpc
# Password for JSON-RPC connections
rpcpassword=$(xxd -l 16 -p /dev/urandom)
# Allow JSON-RPC connections from, by default only localhost are allowed
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
# Use the test chain
testnet=1
# Maintain a full transaction index, used by the getrawtransaction rpc call (default: 0)
txindex=1
# Make the wallet broadcast transactions (default: 1)
walletbroadcast=1
EOF
```