i have changed to the correct directory in windows powershell, and after running ./bitcoind -printtoconsole it seems to exit.
solved:
cd to the bitcoin folder. (should be on folder before your daemon folder)
and run ./bitcoin-qt -reindex
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Couple things. For those of us on Mac’s, will we be able to follow along even though Ivan is running Windows? If I install the version of Bitcoin Core (v17) Ivan is using, will it be an issue on my laptop since its 3 years old? Would installing the latest (v22) be a waste of time for the purposes of this course?
Hi guys,
When I do ./bitcoind -printtoconsole it start running bitcoind on Powershell and then it shuts down itself without doing CTRL-C.
Can somebody tell me why it doesn’t keep running?
Do you get any errors in the console?
i opened file location, and daemon is not there. only 3 options come up
no files just the bitcoin program and test
i installed bitcoin core and cant find the bitcoind file in the folder i installed too. i asked a few days ago but no response. is the a discord or something where i can get quicker responses
It should be in the bin folder of your Bitcoin install.
Hi All,
This is my progress so far:
I’m using an Ubuntu VM under Parallels on top of MacOS. I have cloned my usual Moralis Academy VM to create one dedicated to Bitcoin experimentations.
From the Bitcoin core download page, selected ‘Linux snap store’. This brought up the snapcraft download page. Clicked on the green install button and followed the instructions, running this command:
sudo snap install bitcoin-core
This installed a nice orange Bitcoin icon in the Applications directory of Ubuntu. Clicking it starts Bitcoin-Qt.
Next step: go to the shop and buy an external HD to absorb the 460GB that the sync is going to need 
Greetings, how do i download the 0.17.0 version for linux(ubuntu)?
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Here is the list of all releases for the wallet
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases?page=2
You can see the version 0.17.0 and all their packages for different operating systems.
Also this is the packages list:
https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.17.0/
Carlos Z
Greetings. I’ve managed to download bitcoin core through snap for ubuntu, although the only thing that’s showing is bitcoin qt. I dont see daemon or d. how do you download bitcoin d via ubuntu? Thanks in advance 
Take a look at this tutorial if you wanto to install it on ubuntu 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e9uKMxFwuw
Carlos Z
Thank you so much Thesil(Carlos).
Do I have to download 0.17.1 for the Bitcoin programming 101 class? Or it doesn’t matter. Cos I ended up downloading from the snap store and it was successful. The only thing is, what’s showing is Bitcoin qt. I don’t see Bitcoin daemon or Bitcoin D.
I appreciate you going out of your way.
(MidnightX)
I might advice to download the version of the course, im sure the syntax from newest versions have change a little bit, inside the folders of the installation, there is one with the daemon.
Carlos Z
For those of you that are like me who can’t get the regtest address, as of the current version of bitcoin core that I’m using (latest version in13/08/2022), you need to do the following.
- start the bitcoind using: ./bitcoind -regtest
- create a new wallet using: ./bitcoin-cli -regtest createwallet “choose a name for the wallet”
- call the get new address command: ./bitcoin-cli -regtest getnewaddress
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what command are you using to start the node?
Carlos Z
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cd /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/
./Bitcoin-Qt -regtest
is the commands in the Mac terminal that i use to start btc core in regtest. but after the Mac terminal doesn’t let me add any more commands. but when i use the btcCore terminal it wont recognize commands like getnewaddress or generate. i feel like it is something simple I’m missing.
You might need to create a wallet first
bitcoin-cli --regtest createwallet "wallet_name"
Carlos Z