Installing Bitcoin Wallet

Installing Bitcoin wallet on Ubuntu/Debian

The easiest way to install Bitcoin Wallet on your Linux machine is via repositories.

Let us first install Bitcoind, because it takes some time to sync it all up (around 12 hours)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin-unlimited/bu-ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bitcoind bitcoin-qt

Let's create folder .bitcoin

cd ~/
mkdir .bitcoin
cd .bitcoin
nano bitcoin.conf

Paste this in your bitcoin.conf (replace recuser and rpcpassword)

server=1
daemon=1
txindex=1
rpcuser=bitcoinrpc
rpcpassword=password
bind=127.0.0.1
rpcbind=127.0.0.1

• Press CTRL+O to save the changes.
• Press CTRL+X to exit nano editor.

secure the bitcoin.conf file

chmod 600 ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf

Start Bitcoind

bitcoind -daemon

check to see if it's downloading the blocks

bitcoin-cli getinfo