blockchain – Can I see the workings (console) of my bitcoin full node?

You might be working the Qt model of Bitcoin, which incorporates the GUI. You probably have bitcoind, you may give up the Bitcoin software and sort bitcoind into your terminal.

In any other case, sort tail -f ~/.bitcoin/debug.log in your terminal to see then finish of the debug file, which can present you when new blocks arrive.

Alternatively, you may set up bitcoind from Bitcoin.org. This can be a totally different package deal than Bitcoin-Qt. Bitcoind solely runs “in terminal” so there isn’t any GUI.