Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition

Setting up a Bitcoin node

A sample run of the Bitcoin Core installation on Ubuntu is shown here; for other platforms, you can get details from https://bitcoin.org/en/:

Bitcoin setup

1. Run the following command:

      $ sudo apt-get update

2. Depending on the client required to be installed, users can use either of the following commands, or they can issue both commands at once:

      $ sudo apt-get install bitcoind
      $ sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt
      $ sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt bitcoind
      Reading package lists... Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information... Done
      .......