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Blockchain By Example
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Blockchain By Example

by Bellaj Badr, Richard Horrocks, Xun (Brian) Wu, Karthikeyan Sukumaran
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
13h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Running Bitcoin Core

Depending on your OS, you need to create the bitcoin.conf configuration file in the default data directory located under the following paths:

  • Windows: %APPDATA%\Bitcoin\
  • Mac: $HOME/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/
  • Linux: $HOME/.bitcoin/

In Linux, create a .bitcoin directory using mkdir ~/.bitcoin, then create the bitcoin.conf file using nano ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf.

Add the following lines to bitcoin.conf to define your client configuration (the comments after each # sign explain the parameters):

rpcuser=user_name            #Username for JSON-RPC connectionsrpcpassword=your_password    #Password Username for JSON-RPC connectionsserver=1                     #Tells Bitcoin-Qt and bitcoind to accept JSON-RPC commandstestnet=1 #Run on the test network ...
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ISBN: 9781788475686