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David Gumberg f280f5eb47 wallet: rpc: deprecate removeprunedfunds
This RPC has no helpful use while being both dangerous and a maintenance
burden.

Despite what the name says, it allows the deletion of arbitrary
transactions, and `importprunedfunds` does not allow the importing of
transactions not belonging to the user, and `listtransactions` does not
list transactions not belonging to the wallet, so this RPC can only be
used to delete transactions actually belonging to the wallet, and in the
unlikely event that transactions not belonging to the wallet are
present, they cause no harm except for occupying a few bytes on the
users disk.
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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) or
  • bin/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?

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.

Development

The Bitcoin repo's root README contains relevant information on the development process and automated testing.

Resources

Miscellaneous

License

Distributed under the MIT software license.