nuke: wallet #35273

pull josibake wants to merge 6 commits into bitcoin:master from 2140-dev:nuke-wallet changing 759 files +238 −412547

josibake commented at 4:48 PM on May 12, 2026: member

remove wallet from docs, tests, src.

todo: create a 2140 wallet that connects to this node

build: remove GUI (bitcoin-qt) from build system

Remove all CMake options, modules, and deployment logic related to the
Qt GUI: BUILD_GUI, WITH_QRENCODE, WITH_DBUS, BUILD_GUI_TESTS, Qt 6.2
package discovery, FindQt.cmake, FindQRencode.cmake, the macOS app
bundle deploy target, and share/qt translation/plist files. Update the
Windows NSIS installer and ENABLE_IPC description accordingly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

b6ee635472

test: remove GUI test suite (test_bitcoin-qt)

Remove src/qt/test/ entirely and clean up references to test_bitcoin-qt
in src/test/README.md and doc/files.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

93b08fbbc0

gui: remove src/qt/, init stubs, and all GUI references

Delete the entire src/qt/ directory, both GUI init implementations
(bitcoin-qt.cpp, bitcoin-gui.cpp), the Qt translation lint script, and
the Qt translation process doc. Update all references to bitcoin-qt and
bitcoin-gui throughout source files, CI scripts, contrib tools, and
documentation.

ed019a8f53

gui: remove remaining Qt/GUI references from CI, docs, and config

Remove -DBUILD_GUI=OFF and Qt package dependencies from CI scripts,
drop -DBUILD_GUI_TESTS=OFF from guix and libmultiprocess build scripts,
delete the Transifex config, and remove translation workflow references
from README, CONTRIBUTING, and release docs.

77a107b810

Merge pull request #4 from rustaceanrob/26-5-12-rm-gui
Remove the GUI
f4e5202db6
nuke: wallet + psbt + external-signer (src, build, deps, ci, tests, docs)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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josibake closed this on May 12, 2026
josibake commented at 4:48 PM on May 12, 2026: member

wrong upstream!
DrahtBot commented at 4:48 PM on May 12, 2026: contributor



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furszy commented at 5:04 PM on May 12, 2026: member

very normal way to announce your return. Welcome back :)
jonatack commented at 5:06 PM on May 12, 2026: member

I think that is the largest PR diff that I've seen here.
yancyribbens commented at 4:16 PM on May 13, 2026: contributor

Where is missile defense system when you need it xD

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