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Regtest

Download the binaries, extract to the bin folder

wget https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-25.0/bitcoin-25.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
tar -xzvf bitcoin-25.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
mv bitcoin-25.0/bin/* ~/bin/

rm -rf bitcoin-25.0  bitcoin-25.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz

Create home dir for bitcoin

mkdir ~/.bitcoin

Initialize configuration file at ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf

daemon=1
server=1
regtest=1
listen=1
port=18344
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
rpcport=18343
rpcuser=bitcoinrpc
rpcpassword=CCwXB6IxXcYMlBd6w812yfmiahxYBnlR0KLlvMIjgOrGq9eqgj9WmdeTCSDVo4w9

addnode=...
addnode=...

Set your own rpcuser and rpcpassword, define addresses of all other nodes in addnode fields. Default P2P port for regtest is 18445

Start the node

bitcoind

Verify the node is working

bitcoin-cli getblockcount

Create or load a wallet (btc doesn’t create wallet automatically)

bitcoin-cli createwallet "$your_wallet_name$"# ORbitcoin-cli loadwallet "$your_wallet_name$" true