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  fanquake:
    ACK fa3d98426b - these can get massaged / nitted to death in the wiki.

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assets-attribution.md [doc] Merge doc/assets-attribution.md into contrib/debian/copyright 2015-09-18 18:14:42 +02:00
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gitian-building.md doc: move gitian building to external repo 2017-09-25 15:45:38 +02:00
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release-notes.md doc: Consolidate release notes before 0.19.0 2019-10-01 14:57:37 -04:00
release-process.md Merge #17002: chainparams: Bump assumed chain params 2019-10-02 08:04:57 +08:00
REST-interface.md doc: Fix whitespace errs in .md files, bitcoin.conf, Info.plist.in, and find_bdb48.m4 2019-09-17 03:21:22 -04:00
shared-libraries.md doc: correct bitcoinconsensus_version in shared-libraries 2019-04-07 21:42:32 +08:00
tor.md Elaborate on the need to re-login on Debian-based systems to use tor following usermod 2019-09-12 08:27:03 -05:00
translation_process.md build: Factor out qt translations from build system 2019-09-29 14:24:54 +02:00
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zmq.md doc: Add note regarding ZMQ block notification 2019-08-19 01:05:58 +01:00

Bitcoin Core

Setup

Bitcoin Core is the original Bitcoin client and it builds the backbone of the network. It downloads and, by default, stores the entire history of Bitcoin transactions, which requires a few hundred gigabytes of disk space. Depending on the speed of your computer and network connection, the synchronization process can take anywhere from a few hours to a day or more.

To download Bitcoin Core, visit bitcoincore.org.

Running

The following are some helpful notes on how to run Bitcoin Core on your native platform.

Unix

Unpack the files into a directory and run:

  • bin/bitcoin-qt (GUI) or
  • bin/bitcoind (headless)

Windows

Unpack the files into a directory, and then run bitcoin-qt.exe.

macOS

Drag Bitcoin Core to your applications folder, and then run Bitcoin Core.

Need Help?

Building

The following are developer notes on how to build Bitcoin Core on your native platform. They are not complete guides, but include notes on the necessary libraries, compile flags, etc.

Development

The Bitcoin repo's root README contains relevant information on the development process and automated testing.

Resources

Miscellaneous

License

Distributed under the MIT software license. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com), and UPnP software written by Thomas Bernard.