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The following guide aims to provide examples to help you start building Bitcoin-based applications. To make the best use of this document, you may want to install the current version of Bitcoin Core, either from [source][core git] or from a [pre-compiled executable][core executable].

Once installed, you'll have access to three programs: bitcoind, bitcoin-qt, and bitcoin-cli.

  • bitcoin-qt provides a combination full Bitcoin peer and wallet frontend. From the Help menu, you can access a console where you can enter the RPC commands used throughout this document.

  • bitcoind is more useful for programming: it provides a full peer which you can interact with through RPCs to port 8332 (or 18332 for testnet).

  • bitcoin-cli allows you to send RPC commands to bitcoind from the command line. For example, bitcoin-cli help

All three programs get settings from bitcoin.conf in the Bitcoin application directory:

  • Windows: %APPDATA%\Bitcoin\

  • OSX: $HOME/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/

  • Linux: $HOME/.bitcoin/

For development, it's safer and cheaper to use Bitcoin's test network (testnet) or regression test mode (regtest) described below.

Questions about Bitcoin development are best sent to the Bitcoin [Forum][forum tech support] and [IRC channels][]. Errors or suggestions related to documentation on Bitcoin.org can be [submitted as an issue][docs issue] or posted to the [bitcoin-documentation mailing list][].

In the following documentation, some strings have been shortened or wrapped: "[...]" indicates extra data was removed, and lines ending in a single backslash "\" are continued below. If you hover your mouse over a paragraph, cross-reference links will be shown in blue. If you hover over a cross-reference link, a brief definition of the term will be displayed in a tooltip.

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