RETIRED · 25 SEPTEMBER 2026

BTX Keeper is retired

The one-command Keeper installer no longer installs anything. Its engine, BTX 0.33.3 from 17 August, can no longer follow the BTX chain, so a new install would only have stalled.

Use Keeper mode in easyNode instead

The easyNode for BTX app has had Keeper mode built in since 0.6.8 on Mac and 0.6.11 on Linux: install the app and switch it on in Settings. It is the same job, a small pruned node that serves the network's signed block confirmations, on the current engine, and the app keeps itself up to date.

Already running a Keeper?

It stopped following the chain some time ago and is doing nothing useful. Remove it with the uninstaller the installer left on your Mac:

bash ~/.btx-keeper/uninstall.sh

It asks once, then removes the background agent, the node and everything under ~/.btx-keeper. No keys or wallet ever lived there, so nothing of yours is lost. If that file is gone, the same script is here: download it, read it, then run it with bash.

Running a node that isn't ours?

The BTX Node Guardian is unaffected: a standalone script that tells you whether a stall is your node's or the network's, for any BTX node. It never restarts your node.