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Is it possible to run more than one Bitcoin client at the same time on the same machine? I tried to set different working ports, but it seems not to be working.
Is it possible to run more than one client instance on a machine?
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You need both a different RPC port (-rpcport), a different P2P port (-port), and a different working directory (-datadir). You will also need to use the daemon (bitcoind) for everything after the first instance, since only one GUI can be running at the same time.
1Ok. I set all these parameters differently but again I am not able to run 2 bitcoin client together. Should I use the daemon bitcoind instead of bitcoin ? I am working on windows ... – ADenis – 2011-09-27T12:16:20.083
2Oh, yes. I believe only one GUI can be running at the same time as well. – Pieter Wuille – 2011-09-27T12:35:18.180
1Yes, using bitcoind after few tests it seem work! – ADenis – 2011-09-27T13:06:21.623
2I followed these steps and it worked. However, I can't get peers using a different P2P port,
getpeerinfois always empty. How can this be solved? – bvpx – 2014-02-20T05:29:02.087first you should run getpeerinfo using bitcoin-cli with datadir and addnode with the local ip and port – Badr Bellaj – 2017-12-06T23:59:03.667