Does BitGoD Completely Replace Bitcoind?

[Valzador]

As title states, does BitGo-D and its wallet functions completely replace bitcoind or do i still need to install it to use bitcoin-cli etc.

[Engine-IT]

As title states, does BitGo-D and its wallet functions completely replace bitcoind or do i still need to install it to use bitcoin-cli etc.

Hello Valzador,

Bitgo can be used to accept and send Bitcoin transactions.
If that is what you just want, there is no need to run your own bitcoind.
It has just the same RPC interface as Bitcoin has, so there should not be any issues to switch from Bitcoind to Bitgo.

[Valzador]

As title states, does BitGo-D and its wallet functions completely replace bitcoind or do i still need to install it to use bitcoin-cli etc.

Hello Valzador,

Bitgo can be used to accept and send Bitcoin transactions.
If that is what you just want, there is no need to run your own bitcoind.
It has just the same RPC interface as Bitcoin has, so there should not be any issues to switch from Bitcoind to Bitgo.

Alright, it just says that it can't find bitcoin-cli when i dont install bitcoind

[cloverme]

It's an API that points to a hosted wallet service. So if you use the API, then you need to use the hosted wallet service.  It's made for people who have coded their application to use rpc json to connect to bitcoind that then migrate to bitco.com. So, really bitco.com replaces bitcoind, not bitgod from an apples to apples perspective. Like the readme says, "For wallet-related API calls, BitGoD speaks on the back-end to the BitGo REST API, and allows the client to easily operate a multi-sig wallet as if it were dealing with a standard bitcoind instance."

https://github.com/BitGo/bitgod
https://www.bitgo.com/

You still need bitcoin-cli, so you'll need to install it. Depending on the 31 flavors of linux, your command may vary
yum install bitcoin-utils   
dnf install bitcoin-utils   
npm install -g bitcoin-cli