Requirements

~300 GB of download bandwidth
~7 GB of disk space (~300 GB if you want the Bitcoin transaction index, makes for a faster LND)
Windows 7+ or macOS 10.12.6+

Please submit a pull request if you want to add Linux support! Next year is the Year of Desktop Linux...

Install

Download and open the latest release for your operating system: https://github.com/PierreRochard/node-launcher/releases

Creates a node launcher data directory
- macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Node Launcher/
- Windows: %localappdata%/Node\ Launcher/
Finds available ports for Bitcoin and LND, testnet and mainnet
When launched, Bitcoin nodes use the datadir directory specified in bitcoin.conf (or the default data directory)
If you don't have >300 GB of disk space free, Bitcoin nodes will fall back to pruned
Pruning still requires downloading data, so make sure you can handle downloading ~300 GB of data

git clone https://github.com/PierreRochard/node-launcher && cd node-launcher
Setup a Python 3.7+ virtual environment
python -m pip install --index-url=http://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/dev/latest pyside2 --trusted-host download.qt.io
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py develop
python run.py

pytest tests

To include tests with network calls to GitHub: pytest tests --run_slow

macOS: pyinstaller run-mac.spec

Windows: pyinstaller run-windows.spec (pyinstaller packaging only works on Windows 7)