It is recommended that you choose a few individuals from this list who you find trustworthy and import their keys as above, or import all the keys per the instructions in the contrib/builder-key README. The output of the command above should say that one key was imported, updated, has new signatures, or remained unchanged.
You can find many developer keys listed in the bitcoin/bitcoin repository, which you can then load into your GPG key database.įor example, given the builders-key/keys.txt line E777299FC265DD04793070EB944D35F9AC3DB76A Michael Ford (fanquake)you could load that key using this command: C:\Program Files\Gnu\GnuPg\gpg.exe -keyserver hkp:// -recv-keys E777299FC265DD04793070EB944D35F9AC3DB76A In order to recognize the validity of signatures, you must use GPG to load these public keys locally.
If you haven't previously installed GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) on your system, install it nowīitcoin releases are signed by a number of individuals, each with a unique public key. You can see the checksums you downloaded by running the following command: We recommend that you check every character of the two checksums to ensure they match.
certUtil -hashfile SHA256Įnsure that the checksum produced by the command above matches one of the checksums listed in the checksums file you downloaded earlier. Replace '' with the name of the file you actually downloaded. Run the following command to generate a checksum of the release file you downloaded. Open a terminal (command line prompt) and Change Directory (cd) to the folder you use for downloads. Windows verification instructionsĬlick the link in the list above to download the release for your platform and wait for the file to finish downloading.ĭownload the list of cryptographic checksums: SHA256SUMSĭownload the signatures attesting to validity of the checksums: SHA256SUMS.asc Performing the verification steps here ensures that you have not downloaded an unexpected or tampered version of Bitcoin, which may result in loss of funds.Ĭlick one of the lines below to view verification instructions for that platform.
By default, you will need to store all of that data, but if you enable pruning, you can store as little as 6GB total without sacrificing any security.įor more information about setting up Bitcoin Core, please read the full node guide.ĭownload verification is optional but highly recommended. Gpg -keyserver hkp:// -refresh-keys Check your bandwidth and spaceīitcoin Core requires a one-time download of about 400GB of data plus a further 5-10GB per month.
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