For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions. It also includes a wallet and graphical user interface, which can be optionally built.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
This software is EXPERIMENTAL software. USE ON MAINNET AT YOUR OWN RISK.
The master branch is regularly built (see doc/build-*.md for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui repository is used exclusively for the development of the GUI. Its master branch is identical in all monotree repositories. Release branches and tags do not exist, so please do not fork that repository unless it is for development reasons.
Further, please note that this installation of Omni Core should be viewed as EXPERIMENTAL. Your wallet data, bitcoins and Omni Layer tokens may be lost, deleted, or corrupted, with or without warning due to bugs or glitches. Please take caution.
This software is provided open-source at no cost. You are responsible for knowing the law in your country and determining if your use of this software contravenes any local laws.
PLEASE DO NOT use wallet(s) with significant amounts of bitcoins or Omni Layer tokens while testing!
Testnet mode allows Omni Core to be run on the Bitcoin testnet blockchain for safe testing.
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To run Omni Core in testnet mode, run Omni Core with the following option in place:
-testnet. -
To receive OMN (and TOMN) on testnet please send TBTC to
moneyqMan7uh8FqdCA2BV5yZ8qVrc9ikLP. For each 1 TBTC you will receive 100 OMN and 100 TOMN.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The CI (Continuous Integration) systems make sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.
You will need to install git & pkg-config:
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.