Bitcoin full node and query server

Oct 13, 2025

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expatriotic is me17:28

I was building everything manually since the script failed. That also did not work. So trying ./install.sh again without sudo

./install.sh --prefix=$HOME/libbitcoin --build-boost --build-secp256k1 --disable-shared

Why does boost default to 1.89.0 though?

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expatriotic is me08:46

Okay, thank you for clarifying. That makes perfect sense. So for a non-developer like me, once the node is fully synced, what is the immediate, practical use case? It feels like I've successfully built a powerful backend/dev-kit, but I'm trying to understand what I can do with it today from a user's perspective, before the new client-server interface is ready.