Setting up bitcoind

To run either a Botanix RPC or Federation node you need to setup a Bitcoin block source. Our instructions refer to bitcoind but you are free to use any bitcoin implementation.

Getting bitcoind

Please refer to Setting up bitcoin core

Base configs

The Botanix node will always use RPC credentials for authentication. Please start with these base configs.

rpcuser=<username>
rpcpassword=<password>
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
server=1

Note that the bitcoind RPC does not secure the traffic. It is recommended to run bitcoind on the same machine or in the same VPC as your Botanix node.

Testnet

Botanix testnet uses bitcoin signet as its L1 chain. To start bitcoind in signet mode please start bitcoind with the signet flag.

signet=1