Summary

In this chapter, we explored how a Bitcoin node operates on the network. We installed Bitcoin Core, the official client, and used it to send and receive money. Lastly, we learned about some basic operations and how to execute them programmatically by hand.

In the next chapter, we'll explore the Bitcoin mining process.

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