Hi,

I am running a Bitcoin Full Node on a Macbook Pro and currently have 14 connections. So far so good... The thing is I want to be able to run bitcoind and start developing for Bitcoin.

However, I have been unsuccessful in installing bitcoind and cannot pass commands to the terminal etc.

I am running on a 2012 Macbook Pro with 4GB of Ram running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 and after DL'ing the full blockchain I still have 100GB of space left.

I can keep trying to make this computer work or just keep it running as a full node as is, and set up a new system that I can use for development.

If I do that, what would be the recommendation of which hardware / operating system I should go for?


Can I just go with a Linux desktop with plenty of HD space? Any preference? I figure if I am going to set up a Bitcoin Development Environment, I'd like to see what are best practices which I should go for.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!