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I'd like to do some of the example in "Mastering Bitcoin, Programming the Open Blockchain" using bitoind on my Ubuntu system. Is there a program (possibly bitcoind itself) that allows me to do this w/o setting up a full not which I can currently not do for Hardware reasons?

I would mainly like to be able to explore transaction with comments such as bitcoin-cli decoderawtransaction for instance.

Many thanks and sorry if this is a stupid question.

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  • I guess you could try and use an Api? Commented Nov 29, 2017 at 16:53
  • Can you give an example? Commented Nov 29, 2017 at 16:53
  • See my answer below. Commented Nov 29, 2017 at 16:54

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I guess you could use some API that provides the same functionality.

See https://chainquery.com/bitcoin-api/decoderawtransaction

bitcoin-cli decoderawtransaction

And much more calls/commands are listed there.

Does this fit your needs?

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  • Yes, that is pretty good from what I have seen in that short period of time. Let me ask you as well, out of curiosity, is there something like this for the command line in Linux (Ubuntu)? Commented Nov 29, 2017 at 17:00
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    You mean something like the bitcoin core RPC client? en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_calls_list, see this answer -> bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/24563/… Commented Nov 29, 2017 at 17:02
  • Ok, i.e. something like bitcoinj is a tool I might want to look into. Commented Nov 29, 2017 at 17:05
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You could also run bitcoind in regtest mode, which would allow you to experiment with the RPC and everything without having to download the main blockchain (regtest will create its own private blockchain for you to use, which you can mine on using the generate RPC command).

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