bitcoind 0.8.1 stable or higher. It can be downloaded from github and
it needs to be patched with an electrum specific patch.
- $ cd ~/src && wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.1/bitcoin-0.8.1-linux.tar.gz
- $ tar xfz bitcoin-0.8.1-linux.tar.gz
- $ cd bitcoin-0.8.1-linux/src
+ $ cd ~/src && wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.3/bitcoin-0.8.3-linux.tar.gz
+ $ tar xfz bitcoin-0.8.3-linux.tar.gz
+ $ cd bitcoin-0.8.3-linux/src
$ patch -p1 < ~/src/electrum/server/patch/patch
$ cd src
$ make USE_UPNP= -f makefile.unix
- $ ln -s ~/src/bitcoin-0.8.1-linux/src/src/bitcoind ~/bin/bitcoind
+ $ ln -s ~/src/bitcoin-0.8.3-linux/src/src/bitcoind ~/bin/bitcoind
### Step 4. Configure and start bitcoind