BitcoinPrivate-legacy/fork-instructions.md

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# Instructions to set up a BitcoinPrivate full-node
Linux ONLY, 500GB+ recommended
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# Bitcoin Private
March 2, 2018
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# Install Bitcoin Private

Follow the instructions [here](https://github.com/BTCPrivate/BitcoinPrivate/blob/master/README.md).

# Download + Decompress Snapshot Data (BTC UTXOs)
```
cd ~/.btcprivate/
curl https://s3.amazonaws.com/btcp.snapshot/utxo_snapshot.tar.gz | tar xvz
```

You can also generate the utxo_snapshot yourself [here](https://github.com/BTCPrivate/utxo_dump).

# Make the config file
```
mkdir ~/.btcprivate
touch ~/.btcprivate/btcprivate.conf
```

# Run the daemon
```
cd ~/BitcoinPrivate
./src/btcpd
```