the terminal is simply hanging there
Sure, if you’d like it to run within the background, you’ll want to run with the -daemon flag.
how can I look at the exercise?
You may take a look at the debug.log file (within the datadir), or you may run with the -printtoconsole flag. You may enhance the verbosity utilizing the -debug flag (or specify a particular class, for instance -debug=mempool; to see the assorted debug classes and extra, use -help).
For example, see the cash which might be being generated in my pockets, and many others.
The built-in miner was eliminated in Bitcoin Core v0.13.0, because it was not even helpful for testing functions anymore. In order for you cash, you will have to both purchase them, get somebody to ship you some, or run a mining setup (which on the time of writing virtually definitely requires customized ASIC {hardware}).
I’ve tried this proposed resolution, i.e. to put in writing
bitcoind getinfo
You could use bitcoin-cli now to speak with bitcoind (since a couple of years in the past…). The getinfo command nonetheless works however is deprecated. Extra particular data may be obtained utilizing the RPC calls:
getblockchaininfogetpeerinfogetnetworkinfogetwalletinfogettxoutsetinfogetaddednodeinfogetmempoolinfo