Is there a way to launch bitcoin-core and have it shut down when synchronized?
Is there a way to launch bitcoin-core and have it shut down when synchronized? I use bitcoin core infrequently. I don't want to have it running all the time, but I'm willing to (for now) devote disk space to having it stay current. I'd like to be relatively current whenever I do start it up, without being weeks behind. What I'd like to do is: Once a week or so, start bitcoin-core up. Have it shut down once it's caught up (I guess defined as "when the latest transaction is less than an hour old). I know how to handle step one (via cron/launchd/etc). What I don't know how to do is step 2: either having it terminate automatically, or using some kind of CLI-command to check the sync status every so often. If the answer to this is "put in a feature request to bitcoin core", then I'd be looking for workarounds/alternate methods to use until that worked. For the record, I'm on OSX, but in theory this question applies to all variants of th...