This is my first time trying to run the Bitcoin daemon from the command line. Initially I gave up trying to do this locally and was wairing around for my partner to buy a dedicated host for my server. However, I'm getting bored waiting around for him to send me the server info. I have a Mac and an Ubuntu VM. It only has 5GB of disk storage and when I tried downloading the blockchain file to the VM, the disk ran out of space.
How do I install the daemon on my Mac and access it programmatically from the VM in PHP? I'm using Bitcoin RPC to access the daemon.
You might want to look at places like sourceforge and github to see if someone has already made a PHP interface for this problem.
You could always use the -prune command in the latest release of bitcoin core in order to get the full blockchain to download and not have to use up 100GB of space that you don't have on that vm (instead, only the last 2GB are kept)
