Bitcoin Core VS Bitcoin Knots

All you really have to do is download Bitcoin Core and run it on whatever computer you already have. Source: 5 months ago

> Is it in the Debian repos? Maybe. Try `apt-get bitcoin-cli` At least one place is to download from https://bitcoincore.org As with all binaries outside of package managers that handle signed verification, be sure to verify the signature. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Hello, I downloaded bitcoin core 25 from bitcoincore.org, but the only instructions I could find relating to the installation of the bitcoin daemon was on bitcoin.org (which seems to only offer up to bitcoin 22). Source: 11 months ago

But if you check the link they posted, that's bitcoincore.org, not bitcoin.org That link is also the site that Bitcoin core on the releases page will link to as well. Source: 11 months ago

I looked up the SHA256 hashfile of my download and it was not in the list that I found on bitcoincore.org. Is this a faulty software? Or is it just not in the list since I downloaded it from another site? Source: 12 months ago

And as far as I know this is really the only alternate implementation that hasn't been completely abandoned, because it is too much of a pain in the ass to maintain an alternative. You are better of using and contributing your energy to core if you want it to function differently. Source: about 1 year ago

I personally run Bitcoin knots on Windows: https://github.com/bitcoinknots or https://bitcoinknots.org/. Source: over 1 year ago

There are also other implementations, like Bitcoin Knots for example, so it would be almost impossible to have a consensus between everyone. Source: over 2 years ago

Bitcoin Knots. This is maintained by one developer, luke-jr, and he's on reddit. Source: over 2 years ago

And if for some reason you just can't get bitcoin core, you can also try bitcoin knots which is basically a different implementation of bitcoin core. Here's a description of this project. Source: over 2 years ago