# Problem while starting tendermint

**URL:** <https://forum.cosmos.network/t/problem-while-starting-tendermint/2971>\
**Category:** Tendermint\
**Created:** [November 19, 2019, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/problem-while-starting-tendermint/2971 "2019-11-19T06:03:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![raushan-0822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@raushan-0822](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/raushan-0822)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/problem-while-starting-tendermint/2971/1 "2019-11-19T06:03:44Z")

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I was following tendermint quick start. when I ran following commands  
tendermint init  
tendermint node --proxy\_app=kvstore  
Ideally, it should start node with latest\_block\_height 1. But without any transaction height is not stopping and going upto more than 2000.

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**Author:** ![zychappy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7993a0/32.png) [@zychappy](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/zychappy)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/problem-while-starting-tendermint/2971/2 "2019-12-31T06:09:16Z")

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that is default config,even without any txs it will generate a new empty block.  
if you don’t like it,start like below

```auto
tendermint node --consensus.create_empty_blocks=false --proxy_app=kvstore

```