Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line/15_0_Setting_Up_a_Bitcoin_Regtest.md

Chapter 15: Setting Up a Bitcoin Regtest

While developing Bitcoin applications, it might happen that you 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
• Create the Genesis block and more blocks on top of it
• Get balance and interact with Bitcoind in a private way

Table of Contents

• Section One: Building the Regtest
• Section Two: Testing with Regtest
• Section Three: Mining with Regtest