Stopping bitcoind on mac One of my kids while learning more about bitcoin started bitcoind on my mac. Now I am unable to stop it. In my activity monitor, it shows a process named &quot;bitcoind&quot;. I have stopped that process from the activity monitor various times but that doesn't help. It starts again after some time or in the next boot session. It has been taking a lot of my laptop space (&gt;100gb). I am running low on space and I need to stop it now. This has been happening regularly. As a temporary solution, I used to go to /Users/[name]/Library/Application Support/ and delete the &quot;Bitcoin&quot; folder from there. But that's no proper solution to end it completely. I have tried a bunch of stuff using bitcoin-cli in the terminal. However, I am unable to stop it.
Running
bitcoin-cli stop returns error: couldn't connect to server: unknown (code -1) (make sure server is running and you are connecting to the correct RPC port).
Can someone please tell me what should I do to stop the bitcoind?
Check if you have a relevant setting in one of these

Start up app at System Preferences / Users &amp; Groups / Login Items
Config file at ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/
A bitcoind -daemon in ~/.bash_profile

You could run ps aux | grep bitcoind to check where it is executing from and then delete that folder.