Introduction

These instructions are meant for people interested in running a Bitcoin node. However, this only covers how to build a very specific configuration of a Bitcoin node: Built on a Raspberry Pi4 hardware, with a mini HDMI monitor, BitcoinCore v0.19.0.1 with the GUI, TOR enabled, wallet enabled, external SSD, and fully validating meaning that the node will accept incoming requests.

Before starting this project, I had no experience with Command Line Interfaces (CLI), Linux, or single-board computers. If you have a similar background and you want to run a Bitcoin node configured like this, then these instructions should be helpful to you. I made a lot of mistake and had to gather information from several different sources, so hopefully this saves you some time & effort. If you are a more advanced user, then these instructions may be too basic for you, or you may be looking for a more advanced configuration that is not covered here. However, there are links to informative resources that you may find useful. I may have some steps in here that you find unnecessary. For example, I prefer to load my library files one at a time, other people like to do several at a time. However, these are the steps I took to build my node. Again, I had no experience with this stuff before hand and I do not know exactly what a lot of these steps are doing. But this is how it worked for me.