Building, compiling, installing and debugging Bitcoin-Qt the easy-to-use windowed program that is the main program in the Bitcoin-Core application.
Questions tagged [bitcoin-qt-setup]
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How do I build Bitcoin source in Windows 7?
I am trying to build the current Bitcoin source in Windows 7x64 - Does anyone know of an idiot-proof tutorial? Some of the steps in the included doc give me errors.
When I try to tar openssl with msys, I get symlink errors.
Is there a better…
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No menu in Ubuntu bitcoin-qt
When I run bitcoin-qt on Ubuntu 12.04, I see this:
As you can see, there is no menu on the top menu bar. There is the "beginning" of a menu with the word "Bitcoin" but there are no "File", "Settings", or "Help" menu titles. Clicking on the word…
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Getting Started With Script
I would like to manually write a few locking and unlocking scripts to get a deeper feel for that part of the network. What is the simplest step-by-step set of instructions to set up everything needed to use Script in Windows, on regtest or some…
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Passphrase works in Bitcoin QT, but does not in Bitcoin Core
I found an usb stick with a wallet.dat.
There is also an old notebook with Bitcoin Wallet v.8.6-beta on it.
Unfortunately I can't sync it on my old notebook and therefore I am not able to send BTC to another wallet.
I then installed Bitcoin Core on…
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How to build Bitcoin binaries for Windows on Ubuntu using cross-compile
I am trying to build Bitcoin 0.13 for Windows. I've always used this guide for building previous versions. Now seems that developers have changed their mind regarding Windows, and the new way seems cross-compile from Ubuntu. I have followed step by…
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After downloading the entire Bitcoiin blockchain from a torrent, what are my next steps to link it to Bitcoin Core 0.17.1?
I downloaded the entire bitcoiin blockchain into my external mounted drive as seen below and named the directory bcore.
I then did a symlink to that folder like this in my home folder (~) location :
ln -s /mnt/xxxx/bcore .bitcoin
I then ran…
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Issues connecting a Bitcoin-Qt Wallet to a local node
I have a bitcoin-core node running on a Raspberry Pi on my local network. The node is publically visible and running fine (I can see it on bitnodes.21.co - it has connections and is synced to the latest block).
I have a Windows PC with a…
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Where does bitcoin-qt store it's initial settings
I installed bitcoin-qt (v 0.12.1) on Kubuntu 15.10. When starting it the first time the GUI asked me for the datadir. I set it to an external disk.
Where are this settings stored? There is no bitcoin.conf file in my /home//.bitcoin/…
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Running another instance of bitcoin-qt dedicated to testnet/regtest?
Is it possible to run another instance of bitcoin-qt dedicated to testnet/regtest? If so, how do i do this?
My question is similar to "Running two bitcoind instances for different nets," but I want to associate bitcoin-qt, not just bitcoind, with…
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How to compile Bitcoin-Qt from GitHub source on Arch Linux?
Here are the instructions I have created so far:
Install the necessary dependencies
pacman -S boost boost-libs openssl db base-devel qrencode qt4 automoc4
Clone the GitHub repository:
git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
cd…
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How to save the bitcoin core (bitcoin-qt) database for later?
Say I've received some Bitcoin using the Bitcoin Core wallet on some linux machine. Say I'm done playing for now.
So now I want to free some disk space by deleting the huge database from this machine (and maybe uninstalling the program after backing…
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How to compile Bitcoin-Qt as an .exe on Ubuntu?
After struggeling with the dependencies for a while, I finally managed to compile Bitcoin-Qt on my Ubuntu machine. I used the following commandos for compiling:
./autogen.sh
./configure -with-gui
make
sudo make install
Now when I write bitcoin-qt…
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is there a way to run bitcoin-qt and point it to a local testnet?
I'm running a small testnet locally with this project:
http://github.com/freewil/bitcoin-testnet-box
but I'm having trouble pointing bitcoin-qt to the blockchain that I created locally myself, so I have some data like this:
bitcoin-cli -datadir=1 …
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Can I ignore the blocks directory for time machine backups on OSX?
After installing Bitcoin-QT I have over 40GB of files in the ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin. It seems that the most important file there is wallet.dat. Does it mean that I can exclude from time machine backups the ~/Library/Application…
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How can I compile bitcoin on debian 7.x Wheezy? Missing libmemenv.a
In the bitcoin leveldb branch, the file libmemenv.a is missing. Because the debian leveldb package does not include it, bitcoin will not compile on debian systems.
Is there any workaround? Will you all be including this library in an upcoming…
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