Fractal Bitcoin Overview

Website: Fractal Bitcoin

What is Fractal Bitcoin?

Fractal Bitcoin is the only Bitcoin scaling solution that uses the Bitcoin Core code itself to recursively scale unlimited layers on top of the world’s most-secure and -held blockchain.

It is the first instance of a virtualization methodology applied to Bitcoin in the world. Fractal gradually extends the Bitcoin blockchain into a scalable computing system without breaking consistency with the Bitcoin main chain.

With strong tooling and support, building on Fractal is straightforward.

Running Fractal Bitcoin

Run on linux:

1. Download the release:

wget https://github.com/fractal-bitcoin/fractald-release/releases/download/v0.2.2/fractald-0.2.2-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz

2. Extract the files:

tar -zxvf fractald-0.2.2-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz

3. Navigate to the directory:

cd fractald-0.2.2-x86_64-linux-gnu

4. Set up the data directory:

mkdir data
cp ./bitcoin.conf ./data

5. Run the Bitcoin daemon:

./bin/bitcoind -datadir=./data/

Using Docker:

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/fractal-bitcoin/fractald-release.git

2. Navigate to the Docker directory:

cd fractald-docker

3. Start the service with Docker Compose:

docker-compose up -d