November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
365 pages
6h 59m
English
In this chapter we will learn how to automate Bitcoin’s daemon with systemd,1 a software suite that provides service management facilities. It will help us create Raspberry Nodes that are more resilient to failures. We will also learn to communicate with Bitcoin nodes by utilizing packages and libraries written in Python and JavaScript. Although Bitcoin offers an easy-to-use graphical wallet, the real power lies in services that run behind it. The knowledge about its interfaces and commands should be part of every proper crypto-toolbelt. We will also learn to build our ...
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