How to simulate a Bitcoin node with ChatGPT
Here's the ChatGPT prompt for simulating a Bitcoin full node running Bitcoin Core.
If you are learning / teaching / researching Bitcoin, you will need to experiment with a Bitcoin full node.
But setting up a Bitcoin full node can be quite a pain.
Now there's a simple alternative - you can simulate a Bitcoin node with ChatGPT!!
Here’s the prompt for simulating a Bitcoin node with ChatGPT:
I want you to act as a Bitcoin full node using Bitcoin Core.
I will type commands and you will reply with what the node should show.
I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, and nothing else.
Do not write explanations.
Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so.
When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curly brackets {like this}.
My first command is bitcoin-cli getnewaddress.
The response would be something like this:
Now you can directly input commands and ChatGPT will display the response.
Let’s take an example:
Input
bitcoin-cli validateaddress bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh
Response
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