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Bitcoin => Development & Technical Discussion => Topic started by: chegmarco on May 05, 2017, 12:18:31 PM



Title: Differences between Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoind ???
Post by: chegmarco on May 05, 2017, 12:18:31 PM
Hello.
   I would like to know what exactly are the Differences between Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoind ?
And can install and use both (Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoind) at once?

Thank you.


Title: Re: Differences between Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoind ???
Post by: achow101 on May 05, 2017, 01:20:41 PM
bitcoin-qt is bitcoind but with a GUI. bitcoind does not have a gui and can only be interacted with through the JSON-RPC interface. You can run bitcoin-qt and bitcoind simultaneously but you will need to point each one to a different data directory (and thus it will download the blockchain for each datadir and have different wallets). They cannot share the same datadir.