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Should I be worried that bitcoincore.org now suddenly only provides an "unsigned" Bitcoin Core installer?
Beginning with Taproot? Hmm... Something about this feels scary to me.
Your mistrust is misguided.
So, they are no longer making "signed" installers?
The releases are still signed with ...
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How do you apply "-zapwallettxes" on Windows?
-zapwallettxes removes all wallet transactions that are not in the blockchain. It can remove "stuck" transactions, although you don't need this feature in normal operations mode.
Solution A)
On ...
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bitcoin-cli commands like createrawtransaction not working with json on command line
When looking at the Bitcoin Developer Reference I saw an example where they use two additional '' before and after the list of inputs in comparison to you. For your input, I also got "Error parsing ...
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bitcoin-cli commands like createrawtransaction not working with json on command line
Try rewriting your command to
bitcoin-cli -testnet createrawtransaction "[{\"txid\": \"12b8e7ede4992f4d30f93idj3085746951d945e39f40becebd7c290af8c2e7ad\", \"vout\": 0}]" "{\"...
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Could not locate RPC credentials Error
You're getting this error because bitcoind isn't running. Once it is, it will create an authentication cookie, and bitcoin-cli will be able to connect.
To start bitcoind from cmd prompt, type:
cd C:/...
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Noob: new to bitcoin, bitcoind will not run on Windows 10
You can run bitcoind.exe on windows if you leave off the -daemon flag, as the error message says. Then it will run in the command prompt window or whatever you are running it with. While it's running, ...
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Run bitcoind as a service in windows
Install
Download NSSM
Comment out #daemon=1 from bitcoin.conf with comment #incompatible with windows service
Shut down bitcoin-qt, bitcoind, bitcoin-cli to eliminate any confusion
nssm install ...
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Bitcoin-qt console on cmd
While you have bitcoind or bitcoin-qt running with the -server option, you can then use bitcoin-cli to run commands.
It's part of the bitcoind package.
If you have your conf file in a custom ...
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Windows 7 : Unable to start bitcoin server using daemon in regtest : bitcoind -regtest -daemon
In the command line on windows you must type just bitcoind -regtest whitout -daemon
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Where is the downloaded Ardor blockchain stored on windows and linux?
On Windows (when using Ardor mainnet) the blockchain will be downloaded to your "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Ardor\nxt_db" folder. Make sure that you can see hidden folders. You can find your ...
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Where can I find Armory 92.3 for download?
A version for XP can be downloaded from github. This is actually 93.3 not 92.3. It says "Armory 0.93.3 for Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8+ (64-bit)"
I have not used this version and cannot vouch for it in ...
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Running Bitcoind as a service on windows 10
I think you need to add -daemon to your command in order for this to work. Also, you have -regetest in your command which implies that you want to use the Regression Test network (regtest). Besides ...
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Why does Bitcoin Core keep saying "X days left" every single day?
As Pieter pointed out, it sounds like your Bitcoin Core is not shutting down cleanly when you turn off your computer. This could happen for example if the shutdown process does not wait for Bitcoin ...
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Why does the first bitcoin client only supported windows
If you want a definitive answer, you'll need to ask him I'm afraid.
My best guess is that Windows development was the thing he was most familiar with (or even only familiar with). The coding style was ...
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How can I pick the data directory of Bitcoin Core on Windows 10?
You'll want to set the option -datadir=<path-to-your-drive> either when starting bitcoind, or in your bitcoin.conf file. If you add it to bitcoin.conf, you'll need to restart your node for the ...
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Insert a password to a wallet.dat file from windows cmd
Using the info @Prayank provided, I managed to do it the following way:
Run first cmd session and changed directory to where bitcoind.exe resides. Then run bitcoind.exe
Run second cmd session, changed ...
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Unable to "sendcoins" using bitgo express apis - Windows OS
BitGo generally uses 2-of-3 multisig transactions. That means that when you send a transaction, you must provide one of the signatures, and BitGo will add the second signature once you submit the ...
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How install electrum for other users on Windows?
Per Electrum's github, this issue appears to be Windows-specific and is caused by pyinstaller (an upstream dependency) running under the admin context. This means that the installer will only create ...
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What could be the reason that my node syncs so slowly during Header Synchronization?
Without knowing your bitcoin.conf settings and debug.log, it is difficult to say. Generally speaking, however, here are a few things:
365GB is not enough space, so you'll have to run in pruned mode ...
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json parsing error with createrawtransaction with bitcoin-cli in regtest
Using quotes and escaping like this should work on Windows:
createrawtransaction "[{\"txid\":\"7b2d65b85487a891a3e0a9c541975fa7e681e571ea18982da49402e594ca2af1\",\"vout\&...
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Why does the "uptime" RPC API call fail if Bitcoin Core is running but has not synced fully?
The node does not need to sync fully in order for RPC to start responding to queries.
What happens is Bitcoin Core starts up in "warm up" mode. During warm up RPC is unavailable because the system ...
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Where is the bitcoind executable on Windows 10?
It's at C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\daemon.
NOTE: On the download page, make sure to choose the installer, not the zip file.
The first one:
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Getting "Can't run the JVM" when starting Ardor on Windows 10
If you edit the run.bat file you'll notice the last line that begins with start
I copied that line and made the java.exe paths absolute instead of relative and pasted this line into the command line ...
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How can I have Bitcoind.exe use the core data from Bitcoin-QT on my D drive. Using Windows 10
There are a few ways to do it one of which is modifying the shortcut as you've mentioned.
The easiest way is to create a bitcoin.conf file in %APPDATA%\Bitcoin. That's the default directory bitcoind ...
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How can I install Electrum on 32-bit Windows?
Electrum is an elaborate python script. It uses the same bitwidth as your python interpreter. If you have Py32 installed it is 32 bit, if you have Py64 it is 64 bit.
For windows users
The ...
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Does bitcoin 0.16.1 work with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Windows 10?
it should work, but filesystem access from within WSL might be slower then using the windows server. There are some benchmarks available. Perhaps another alternative to consider would be running ...
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Login Problems with Greenaddress
If any of the steps fail, comment below, I'll try to help.
1) Follow the tutorial here to install Ubuntu for Windows
2) Set your Username and Password
3) Type
sudo apt-get update -qq
After ...
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WSL PATH command help
It is a command that you enter into the command prompt. This isn't a file or something that you have to add to a file, just type it (or copy and paste it) into the command prompt once the bash shell ...
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