a beginner bitcoin researcher right here.

For my first work I want a neighborhood bitcoin community on which I’ve as a lot management as doable. I’ve a home windows machine.

For instance – I want to manage the variety of nodes, community construction, mining issue and ideally some other parameter there’s.

I downloaded bitcoin-core, put in it and ran its take a look at mode, but it surely nonetheless asks me to obtain all blockchain historical past.
I had in thoughts a brand new bitcoin-core blockchain constructed from scratch, so I can management and perceive every part.
Is it even doable, utilizing the bitcoin-core software program?
If not, how can I do that?

Thanks