© Harris Brakmić 2019
H. BrakmićBitcoin and Lightning Network on Raspberry Pihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5522-3_3

3. Environment Setup

Harris Brakmić1 
(1)
Troisdorf, Germany
 

In this chapter we will get more practical and prepare our Raspberry Pi hardware, Bitcoin’s source code, and the C++ compiler toolchain. Our first goal will be to install and configure Raspberry’s operating system, which is a variant of Linux. Afterward, we will setup the environment for both the Bitcoin daemon and the GUI wallet application.

Hardware

In most cases a standard Raspberry Pi of type Zero W, Pi3, or Pi4 with a cheap 64GB SD card would be sufficient for all the tasks done in the testnet or regtest, the two Bitcoin networks designed for development and testing. ...

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