Need a Command Line Bitcoin Core for Solo Mining

I’ve been trying to set up a solo mining pool for Bitcoin just for privacy reasons. But I can’t find a no GUI version of Bitcoin Core. No idea how to use the daemon either. Anyone know of a good open-source option without a GUI? Thanks!

Solo mining pool? You mean just solo mining, right? Have you actually downloaded Bitcoin Core from the official site? If you’re on Windows, just run the setup file. Or you can just use bitcoind and command line with bitcoin-cli for everything.

You really looking for a GUI version? Check the news section here. The latest Bitcoin Core link is always updated. You can grab the installer for Windows or whatever OS you’re on. Just run bitcoin-qt. If not, fire up the daemon and get going with bitcoind. Sounds like a little misunderstandings but it should work.

First off, Bitcoin Core is a full node wallet, not a mining app. If you're having issues with understanding the daemon stuff, maybe solo mining isn't what you should start with. Can you explain in detail what you’ve tried? There might be simpler ways to help or resources I can share.

bitcoin-qt is the GUI version, right? bitcoind is what you need, but you can't just open it. If you're on Windows, you gotta use command prompt or PowerShell. deal with to the daemon directory and then run either bitcoind or./bitcoind depends on your CLI.

Yeah, you need the cmd or PowerShell to run it. I’ve done that too. I mainly use bitcoind to connect to the RPC server, then deal with using command prompt to run bitcoin-cli with commands. I don’t use it often but it works.

I think OP is hitting an XY problem. We could just tell OP to: 1. Search for tutorials on using bitcoind with Bitcoin Core’s API. 2. Follow a guide to solo mine testnet bitcoins with bfgminer, Bitcoin Core, and set it all up properly. I worry that this won’t really help OP get what they actually want.

You can actually run Bitcoin Core GUI alongside an RPC interface. Just start bitcoin-qt with the -server command-line option. Not sure if it defaults that way in the GUI, but running bitcoind definitely brings it up. You’ll need that JSON-RPC server for your mining pool.

Yeah, in the Bitcoin repo, it says that option is off by default in the GUI. Also, you can set it in the bitcoin.conf file as server=1 to keep it on for good.