This course was one of @BlockchainComns first offerings, & it remains one of our most popular. Not only has it received on Github over 100 watches, 300 forks, and 1200 stars, but many people who learned how to program Bitcoin from the course have become full-time devs. [2/10]

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We believe that one of the best ways to learn bitcoin is to learn the command-line interface (CLI) of bitcoind, and start creating some simple shell scripts to use it. Our free “Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line” is a great start:
https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line [1-10]

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Christopher Allen

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This course was one of @BlockchainComns first offerings, & it remains one of our most popular. Not only has it received on Github over 100 watches, 300 forks, and 1200 stars, but many people who learned how to program Bitcoin from the course have become full-time devs. [2/10]

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Christopher Allen

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This bitcoin course begins by focuses on using Bitcoin Core's bitcoind app, and teaches all of the fundamentals of Bitcoin programming using Bitcoin Core’s RPC commands, as well use of just a few simple CLI tools like `jq` and `btcdeb`. [3/10]

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The majority of the course focuses on bitcoin-cli and on command-line scripting. We completed that part of the course a few years ago, though we’ve recently updated it to the latest Bitcoin 0.20.1. [4/10]

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This year, as part of our 2.0 revision of the course, we’re adding something new: accessing Bitcoin Core’s RPC through programming languages. Today, we finalized the release of three chapters core to that. [5/10]

10/5/2020, 11:01:33 AM

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Chapter 15 focuses on C, showing how to integrate with both RPC and ZMQ. https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line/blob/master/15_0_Talking_to_Bitcoind.md [6/10]

10/5/2020, 11:01:33 AM

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Chapter 16 talks about how to use C with the Libwally library, enabling lots of low-level wallet work. https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line/blob/master/16_0_Programming_with_Libwally.md [7/10]

10/5/2020, 11:01:33 AM

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Chapter 17 barrels through interacting with Bitcoin’s RPC in six different languages: Go, Java, NodeJS, Python, Rust, Swift. https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line/blob/master/17_0_Talking_to_Bitcoind_Other.md [8/10]

10/5/2020, 11:01:33 AM

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This latest version of the course has benefited by contributions from our summer @BlockchainComns interns, many who got their start learning from this course. We’d love your comments, thoughts, or corrections. Please feel free to use the PR and Issues features at Github! [9/10]

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Please support this course so that we can add teaching how to use the Lightning Network via the CLI, and more advanced topics like miniscript. Support the course by becoming an ongoing patron at https://github.com/sponsors/BlockchainCommons, starting at $20 a month. [10/10]

10/5/2020, 11:01:34 AM

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