September 15, 2026

How to safely shutdown bitcoind ?

Surprised this one hasn’t been asked yet.

But how / what is the recommended best practice for shutting down bitcoind ?

Right now I’m manually killing the process with either sudo kill {pid} or if this is failing (like just now) using sudo pkill -9 -f bitcoind

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