legerd

Ledgerd is a human readable cli interface for bitcoin nodes.

What is Ledgerd?

"Building on Bitcoin"

A collection of programs and scripts designed to help bitcoin developers and node operators.

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Heads up!

Bitcoin Core nodes are safest to use as "hot wallets" storing small amouts of btc for short amounts of time.

Current Support

Darwin (Mac) Linux

Bitcoin Core Sources

• https://bitcoincore.org/bin/

• https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

• https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/

Run CLI Instructions

# command `ledgerd` needs to be linked to access glodally.
# from inside the repo run:
$ npm link
$ ledgerd

# Without linking run:
$ node index.js

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Scripts:

• scripts/coreVersions.js: curl available bin/pkgs for bitcoin-core and write to file versions.json.
• scripts/coreInit.js: build all important urls and env details.
• scripts/coreInit.js: Auth implementation.
• scripts/coreInit.js: bitcoin.conf creation.
• utils/auth.js
• scripts/operations {analyze}: tailing the debug.log and grep for progress status, shutdown info, errors.

Get bitcoin-core binary files

• download desired bitcoin version pkgs

$ wget https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.21.1/bitcoin-0.21.1-osx.dmg

Validate binary file integrity.

• Validate SHASUMs (MacOS)

# (MacOS)
# Validate SHASUMs example

$ gpg --keyserver
$ find SHASUMS.asc
$ gpg --verify SHASUMS.asc

/**
 *  BONUS: How "clean" is the env?
 * 
 *  Having the peace of mind knowing that 
 *   some basic explotis are accounted for.
 *   what are some basic exploits/concerns?
 *   Dangerous ports open? 
 */