Looking for technical guide to bitcoin core 0.17.0 on linux

superNoobMiner

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Thank you for your reply.

I also found out about bitcoin-cli from the Mastering Bitcoin book you recommended and I had on order (I did not mention the title exact title). It appears that bitcoin-cli needs bitcoind runnning.

It looks like https://sourceforge.net/projects/cpuminer/ might be the reference I need for CPU mining. I am sure that once I build it, forking it off will be no problem.

seoincorporation

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Quote from: superNoobMiner on November 17, 2018, 11:29:52 AM

I am very new to bitcoin. I have only read an introductory book on the technology and I have an Oriley book on bitcoin on order. I am looking for a manual or guide that describes the standard interfaces to to the blockchain and transaction information so that I can try to design my own mine (for fun only of course) Grin

Any help would be appreciated.

'Mastering Bitcoin' is where you can start https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook

First, you need to download bitcoin core, after that, you will realize you can use bitcoin form the GUI, or from the command line...

Code:

bitcoin-cli help

will show you all the commands available.

Design your own miner is another thing, first you can start mining with CPU to understand how it works, but for that, you don't need bitcoin core, you need https://sourceforge.net/projects/cpuminer/.