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a15bdc0598doc: update offline-signing-tutorial to use exportwatchonlywallet rpc (Pol Espinasa)a388076401test: Test for exportwatchonlywallet (Ava Chow)d053e3e5c8wallet, rpc: Add exportwatchonlywallet RPC (Ava Chow)444878efefwallet: Add CWallet::ExportWatchOnly (Ava Chow)f9273f01dbwallet: Move listdescriptors retrieving from RPC to CWallet (Ava Chow)a1c83789a7wallet: Write new descriptor's cache in AddWalletDescriptor (Ava Chow)1e996640e6wallet: Use Descriptor::CanSelfExpand() in CanGetAddresses() (Ava Chow)d2ee9227dadescriptor: Add CanSelfExpand() (Ava Chow) Pull request description: Currently, if a user wants to use an airgapped setup, they need to manually create the watchonly wallet that will live on the online node by importing the public descriptors. This PR introduces `exportwatchonlywallet` which will create a wallet file with the public descriptors to avoid exposing the specific internals to the user. Additionally, this RPC will copy any existing labels, transactions, and wallet flags. This ensures that the exported watchonly wallet is almost entirely a copy of the original wallet but without private keys. ACKs for top commit: polespinasa: lgtm ACKa15bdc0598Sjors: re-utACKa15bdc0598pablomartin4btc: re-ACK [a15bdc0](a15bdc0598) w0xlt: lgtm reACKa15bdc0598Tree-SHA512: cfc59415ad9aa13d1445cf2a85db1c051215496b6edcf5a8db463499b2b51b92ee7bf840b709035dff7635f9d0c533423bceb58c851f220500e1ea254d12f3b8
Bitcoin Core
Setup
Bitcoin Core is the original Bitcoin client and it builds the backbone of the network. It downloads and, by default, stores the entire history of Bitcoin transactions, which requires several hundred gigabytes or more of disk space. Depending on the speed of your computer and network connection, the synchronization process can take anywhere from a few hours to several days or more.
To download Bitcoin Core, visit bitcoincore.org.
Running
The following are some helpful notes on how to run Bitcoin Core on your native platform.
Unix
Unpack the files into a directory and run:
bin/bitcoin-qt(GUI) orbin/bitcoind(headless)bin/bitcoin(wrapper command)
The bitcoin command supports subcommands like bitcoin gui, bitcoin node, and bitcoin rpc exposing different functionality. Subcommands can be listed with bitcoin help.
Windows
Unpack the files into a directory, and then run bitcoin-qt.exe.
macOS
Drag Bitcoin Core to your applications folder, and then run Bitcoin Core.
Need Help?
- See the documentation at the Bitcoin Wiki for help and more information.
- Ask for help on Bitcoin StackExchange.
- Ask for help on #bitcoin on Libera Chat. If you don't have an IRC client, you can use web.libera.chat.
- Ask for help on the BitcoinTalk forums, in the Technical Support board.
Building
The following are developer notes on how to build Bitcoin Core on your native platform. They are not complete guides, but include notes on the necessary libraries, compile flags, etc.
- Dependencies
- macOS Build Notes
- Unix Build Notes
- Windows Build Notes
- FreeBSD Build Notes
- OpenBSD Build Notes
- NetBSD Build Notes
Development
The Bitcoin repo's root README contains relevant information on the development process and automated testing.
- Developer Notes
- Productivity Notes
- Release Process
- Source Code Documentation (External Link)
- Translation Process
- Translation Strings Policy
- JSON-RPC Interface
- Unauthenticated REST Interface
- BIPS
- Dnsseed Policy
- Benchmarking
- Internal Design Docs
Resources
- Discuss on the BitcoinTalk forums, in the Development & Technical Discussion board.
- Discuss project-specific development on #bitcoin-core-dev on Libera Chat. If you don't have an IRC client, you can use web.libera.chat.
Miscellaneous
- Assets Attribution
- bitcoin.conf Configuration File
- CJDNS Support
- Files
- Fuzz-testing
- I2P Support
- Init Scripts (systemd/upstart/openrc)
- Managing Wallets
- Multisig Tutorial
- Offline Signing Tutorial
- P2P bad ports definition and list
- PSBT support
- Reduce Memory
- Reduce Traffic
- Tor Support
- Transaction Relay Policy
- ZMQ
License
Distributed under the MIT software license.