/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line

The best way to learn to learn deeply about bitcoin is to avoid GUIs (even bitcoin-qt), and instead learn it from the command line.

Primary LanguageShell

Learning Bitcoin

NOTE: This is a draft in progress, so that I can get some feedback from early reviewers. It is not yet ready for use.

Copyright

Unless otherwise noted, the contents of this repository are Copyright ©2017 by Christopher Allen @ChristopherA <ChristopherA@LifeWithAlacrity.com> and are licensed CC-BY.

Credits

Role Names
Lead Authors: Christopher Allen @ChristopherA, Shannon Appelcline @ShannonA
Contributors:
Reviewers: Glen Willem @gwillem
Sponsors: Blockstream Corporation

Introduction

The best way to learn deeply about bitcoin is to avoid GUIs (even bitcoin-qt), and instead learn it from the command line.

Requirements

This tutorial assumes that you have some minimal background of how to use the command line interface. If not, there are many tutorials available, and I have one for Mac users at https://github.com/ChristopherA/intro-mac-command-line

Files

PART ONE: PREPARING FOR BITCOIN

PART TWO: BITCOIN-CLI

PART THREE: BITCOIN SCRIPTING

PART FOUR: BITCOIN APIS

Planned Future Work

Add: HOW TO DO A REFUND (short answer: ask!)

** PART FIVE: BITCOIN FUTURES **

** APPENDICES **

  • Appendix: Compiling Bitcoin