Bitcoin Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v1.06, by Herong Yang
Bitcoin Core Daemon
This section describes what is Bitcoin Core Daemon.
Bitcoin Core Daemon runs as a Bitcoin peer in the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin Core Daemon is included in the of Bitcoin Core package,
Here is how you can run Bitcoin Core Daemon and see its command line options:
C:\>\local\bitcoin-0.15.1\bin\bitcoind -? Bitcoin Core Daemon version v0.15.1 Usage: bitcoind [options] Start Bitcoin Core Daemon Options: -? Print this help message and exit -version Print version and exit -testnet Use the test chain -debug=<category> Output debugging information (default: 0, supplying <category> is optional). If <category> is not supplied or if <category> = 1, output all debugging information. <category> can be: net, tor, mempool, http, bench, zmq, db, rpc, estimatefee, addrman, selectcoins, reindex, cmpctblock, rand, prune, proxy, mempoolrej, libevent, coindb, qt, leveldb. -printtoconsole Send trace/debug info to console instead of debug.log file ...
Table of Contents
Access Bitcoin Test Network "-testnet"
"bitcoin-cli getclock" Command
bitcoin-cli Transaction Commands
"bitcoin-cli encryptwallet" - Set Wallet Password
"bitcoin-cli walletpassphrase" - Unlock Wallet
"bitcoin-cli backupwallet" - Backup Wallet