These are the notes + exercises that we went through in the November 2023 Taproot class for Base58.
Note that to run the bitcoin-core examples, you'll need bitcoind running.
This repository includes a nix flake which will setup all the required dependencies to run this notebook + bitcoin core.
You'll nix installed locally. Generally, you can do this with the following command
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install
Check out the instructions on the Zero to Nix installer if you need help or more of a walk through.
Once nix in on your machine, you should be able to load everything you need for this notebook with nix develop.
You'll need to have bitcoin-core running on regtest for the !bitcoin-cli -regtest jupyter notebook cells to work.
Before you start the notebook, you should start up bitcoin-core on regtest. You can do that with the following command.
Run this inside the shell you just started with nix develop, above.
bitcoind -regtest -daemon -fallbackfee=0.00000012
Once bitcoin-core is up and running, you're ready to start the jupyter notebook.
Should be very simple. Just call the following from inside the nix develop environment.
jupyter notebook
To shut down bitcoind, run
bitcoin-cli -regtest stop
To get out of the nix develop environment, run
exit
@niftynei is mainly responsible.
Huge thanks to @realeinherjar for the working nix flake!
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