BITCOIN(1)                       User Commands                      BITCOIN(1)

NAME
       bitcoin - manual page for bitcoin v31.0.0

SYNOPSIS
       bitcoin [OPTIONS] COMMAND...

OPTIONS
       -m, --multiprocess
              Run multiprocess binaries bitcoin-node, bitcoin-gui.

       -M, --monolithic
              Run monolithic binaries bitcoind, bitcoin-qt. (Default behavior)

       -v, --version
              Show version information

       -h, --help
              Show full help message

   Commands:
       gui [ARGS]
              Start GUI, equivalent to running 'bitcoin-qt [ARGS]' or
              'bitcoin-gui [ARGS]'.

       node [ARGS]
              Start node, equivalent to running 'bitcoind [ARGS]' or
              'bitcoin-node [ARGS]'.

       rpc [ARGS]
              Call RPC method, equivalent to running 'bitcoin-cli -named
              [ARGS]'.

       wallet [ARGS]
              Call wallet command, equivalent to running 'bitcoin-wallet
              [ARGS]'.

       tx [ARGS]
              Manipulate hex-encoded transactions, equivalent to running
              'bitcoin-tx [ARGS]'.

       help   Show full help message.

   Additional less commonly used commands:
       bench [ARGS]
              Run bench command, equivalent to running 'bench_bitcoin [ARGS]'.

              chainstate [ARGS] Run bitcoin kernel chainstate util, equivalent
              to running 'bitcoin-chainstate [ARGS]'.  test [ARGS]       Run
              unit tests, equivalent to running 'test_bitcoin [ARGS]'.
              test-gui [ARGS]   Run GUI unit tests, equivalent to running
              'test_bitcoin-qt [ARGS]'.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2009-2026 The Bitcoin Core developers

       Please contribute if you find Bitcoin Core useful. Visit
       <https://bitcoincore.org/> for further information about the software.
       The source code is available from <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin>.

       This is experimental software.  Distributed under the MIT software
       license, see the accompanying file COPYING or
       <https://opensource.org/license/MIT>

SEE ALSO
       bitcoin(1), bitcoind(1), bitcoin-cli(1), bitcoin-tx(1), bitcoin-
       wallet(1), bitcoin-util(1), bitcoin-qt(1)

bitcoin v31.0.0                   April 2026                        BITCOIN(1)