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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
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Bitcoin-CLI - Cannot connect
by
genesis2020
on 10/01/2020, 12:42:24 UTC
I've downloaded the Bitcoin source code and compiled it successfully. I've now got Bitcoin-QT running and synchronising transactions. In the meantime, I thought I'd have a play with the cli but when I run bitcoin-cli on the command line (I'm running Windows 10 by the way), I get the following error:

Code:
error: Could not connect to the server 127.0.0.1:8332 (error code 1 - "EOF reached")

Make sure the bitcoind server is running and that you are connecting to the correct RPC port.


I'm not sure if I need to specify a port (if so, how?) or whether its because the bitcoin-qt is running and not bitcoind.exe? Or is there likely to be some other issue?

Thanks