[Free] What Is Bitcoin Full Node And How To Setup One

Learn why you need a Fullnode – Free Course

Added on August 12, 2023 IT & Software 2 min read

What you’ll learn

What is the purpose and advantage of having your own Bitcoin Full node
How to setup your own Bitcoin Full Node from leading cloud platforms (AWS,GCP,Azure)
Understand how Bitcoind and Bitcoin QT GUI is used to sync the ledger

Requirements

Basic knowledge of bitcoin

Description

Bitcoin is not a new name in todays world but setting up your own bitcoin full node is still a time consuming task .

There are many reasons to have a full node, like having higher degree of privacy as you can create and manage your own wallet instead of having to trust a third party service provide.

Running any kind of Bitcoin wallet that does not require you to run a full node means that you have to place a certain degree of trust in the service provider.

A web-based wallet requires you to trust the central node through which your transactions are broadcasted and even lightweight clients like Electrum require that you trust their servers. Even an SPV client requires trust in a third party. With your own full node, you dont need to worry about trusting a third party.

This course covers the reason why you need a full node and how to get one.

We provide you and out of box environment for Bitcoin Full Node which is a virtual machine with complete preinstalled setup. It includes the bitcoind and bitcoin QT GUI and synched ledger. The bitcoin ledger is pre-synched making it easier and faster for you to fully synch the ledger.

Having your own full bitcoin node provides you following benefits:

1.Gives you higher degree of privacy and keeps you safe

2.Gives you full control

The Fullnode VM is available on :