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Connecting to testnet
After building Bitcoin private, you should have two binaries (btcpd, and btcp-cli) on your build target directory, but before running the btcp, you need to configure it:
- Create a btcprivate.conf file
Linux
vi ~/.btcprivate/btcprivate.conf
Windows
Click on Start/Windows Logo and type cmd once there type %AppData%\BitcoinPrivate. It will open the explorer in that directory. Create a new text file and name it as btcprivate.conf (be sure you remove the txt extension) in the directory and open it with a text editor
- Add the following to the conf file
testnet=1
addnode=testnet1.btcprivate.org:17933
rpcuser=test
rpcpassword=test
rpcport=17932
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
The rpc parameters are required for the daemon to run. the testnet=1 tells the daemon to connect to testnet, and addnode=... is to connect to a reliable node. This is a temporal until we add dns seeds.
- Execute the btcd binary
Once you run the daemon, you should first wait to sync the chain before mining. Once you are synced you can add gen=1 to the conf file, and restart the btcp daemon.
Now that you have your node up you can use btcp-cli to make RPC calls to your node (i.e btcp-cli getinfo).