# Learning Bitcoin from the Command-Line #

> NOTE: This is a draft in progress, so that I can get some feedback from early reviewers. It is not yet ready for use.

# Copyright

Unless otherwise noted, the contents of this repository areCopyright ©2017 by Christopher Allen \<ChristopherA@LifeWithAlacrity.com\> and is licensed [CC-BY](./LICENSE-CC-BY-4.0.md).

## Introduction 

The best way to learn to learn deeply about bitcoin is to avoid GUIs (even bitcoin-qt), and instead learn it from the command line.

## Requirements

This tutorial assumes that you have some minimal background of how to use the command line interface. If not, there are many tutorials available, and I have one for Mac users at https://github.com/ChristopherA/intro-mac-command-line

## Files

* [1A_Setting_up_a_Bitcoin-Core_VPS_by_Hand.md](./1A_Setting_up_a_Bitcoin-Core_VPS_by_Hand.md)
* [1B_Setting_Up_a_Bitcoin-Core_VPS_with_StackScript.md](./1B_Setting_Up_a_Bitcoin-Core_VPS_with_StackScript.md)
  * [Linode-Bitcoin-VPS-Setup.stackscript](./Linode-Bitcoin-VPS-Setup.stackscript)