# Chapter 15: Setting Up a Bitcoin Regtest

While developing Bitcoin applications, you might want to use your applications isolated from any public Blockchain such as the Mainnet or the Testnet.
You can create a Blockchain from scratch using the Regtest, with one main advantage over Testnet: you choose when to create new blocks, so you have complete control over the environment.

## Objectives for This Chapter

After working through this chapter, a developer will be able to:

   * Create your own Blockchain from scratch
   * Generate/mine blocks and get the rewards
   * Get balance and interact with Bitcoind in a private way

## Table of Contents

  * [Section One: Starting the Regtest](15_1_Starting_the_Regtest.md)
  * [Section Two: Mining with Regtest](15_2_Mining_with_Regtest.md)
  * [Section Three: Testing with Regtest](15_3_Testing_with_Regtest.md)