Hi everyone,
I’m trying to set up and run a Bitcoin instance (bitcoind) on my Mac, but I’m encountering an error that’s preventing me from proceeding. When I attempt to run bitcoind, I get the following error:
"bitcoind" Not opened
Apple could not verify “bitcoind” is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy.
I’ve downloaded the Bitcoin Core software from the official website
System Details:
- macOS Version: [Sequoia 15.0.1] Apple M3
- Bitcoin Core Version: [bitcoin-core-27.0]
While i was trying to post this, i tried this
- I went to
System Settings > Privacy & Security > Security and tried to allow bitcoind manually, it shows up in the list and i gave permission. Then i tried running the instance again. it popped up this image
It will be cool if the team can work on these security flags so as not to raise paranoia. Thanks
That’s just how macOS works and we can’t help with that. We don’t control bitcoind and therefore can’t add a signature to it so that it wouldn’t complain
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Ohh, make sense. So all macOS users will just have to manually bypass the warning manually. Thanks
