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Bitcoin and Lightning Network on Raspberry Pi: Running Nodes on Pi3, Pi4 and Pi Zero

Name: Bitcoin and Lightning Network on Raspberry Pi: Running Nodes on Pi3, Pi4 and Pi Zero
Author: Harris Brakmić
ISBN: 9781484255223

by Harris Brakmić

November 2019

Intermediate to advanced

365 pages

6h 59m

English

Apress

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

3. Environment Setup

Harris Brakmić¹

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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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Bitcoin and Lightning Network on Raspberry Pi: Running Nodes on Pi3, Pi4 and Pi Zero

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3. Environment Setup

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