How do I prevent Bitcoin from synchronizing?

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I have a script that uses Bitcoin's RPC interface and takes a lot of CPU to run, and I don't want Bitcoin to be verifying blocks while I do it. Is there a config setting or an RPC call I can use to stop it from syncing?

Nick ODell

Posted 2015-08-06T01:09:30.940

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bitcoin-cli invalidateblock `bitcoin-cli getbestblockhash`

or

bitcoind -maxconnections=0

Anonymous

Posted 2015-08-06T01:09:30.940

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Thanks for your answer! Can you tell me, how can I "undo" the invalidateblock command so the sync will be continued? – Sergey Potekhin – 2018-10-23T22:58:27.210

1reconsiderblock <hash> – Anonymous – 2018-10-23T22:59:18.577

Is invalidateblock still working? How much of a hack is this? Is there a less hacky way to do this already? Like a config entry? – nopara73 – 2019-01-31T10:41:47.117

It still works. – Anonymous – 2019-01-31T11:24:28.787

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