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Bitcoin-Qt

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Bitcoin-Qt is the name of the graphical user interface or GUI which comes as part of the Bitcoin Core software package. Bitcoin-Qt offers a visual representation of the node and wallet functionality Bitcoin Core offers. The suffix “Qt” is derived from the GUI toolkit Qt, which is used to build Bitcoin-Qt.

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