# Setting up a Bitcoin node on 🪟Windows 🪟

- Table of Content
[ToC]

### Step 1: Download Bitcoin Core

- a.) visit: https://bitcoin.org/en/download
- b.) download 

### Step 2: Install Bitcoin Core
- a.) Open the downloaded application
- b.) Select Yes on the User Account Control popup 
- c.) Click next 
- d.) Select the location where the application will be installed, make note of this location. The default location is `C:\Program Files\Bitcoin` 
- e.) Click install 
- f.) Wait for the installer to finish and click next 

:::warning
:pushpin: We will be using the Daemon to run the node, uncheck the checbox in the last step of the wizard
:::

- d.) uncechk the checkbox and click finish 

### Step 3: Running the node via Daemon
- a.)🪟+`R` -> `cmd` -> `enter`
-- Open up a console: press the windows logo and while holding it press R
- b.) you should see the console now 
- c.) enter the directory where you installed Bitcoin Core in step 2d)
-- `cd C:\Program Files\Bitcoin` 
- d.) type `dir` and hit `enter`
-- you should see a list of files and directories like this 
- e.) we will using binaries(exe files) from the daemon directory, so enter it, just type `cd daemon` and hit enter 
- f.) Decide where you are going to keep the Bitcon Node data, this can take up to 500GB
-- for the purpose of this tutorial, we're going to keep the data in `D:\btc\data`
-- make sure that the data directory exists
-- you can create it like this: `mkdir D:\btc\data` +enter 
- g.) enter `bitcoind.exe -datadir=D:\btc\data -dbcache=8000 -txindex=1` and press enter
- h.) The node needs to sync data from other nodes over the internet if a popup like this shows hit allow 
- i.) wait for the node to sync up, this can take from a couple of hours to a couple of days