From Zero to Scripts: My Bitcoin CLI Learning Journey (Btrust Builders Program)

When I joined the Btrust Builder Program, I already had some prior exposure to Bitcoin — having gone through month 1 of the BOSS program and Code Orange's Bitcoin Dojo exercises. What followed was weeks of hands-on work with the Bitcoin CLI, and eventually, real contributions to the Bitcoin open source ecosystem. Here's an account of how it went. Getting Started The first two chapters of the material (Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line) covered installing Bitcoin Core, configuring a node, an