checkoutcrypto/bitcoin repository overview

#CheckoutCrypto Bitcoin Container

Download bitcoin core 32⁠ or 64 bit⁠.

mkdir yourcryptofolder
cd ~/yourcryptofolder
wget https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.10.0/bitcoin-0.10.0-linux64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ./bitcoin*-linux64.tar.gz 

run it once

./bitcoin/bin/bitcoind

A cache will be created at /home/your_user/.bitcoin we need to link the binary and cache, to the container.

Note: it's recommended, if you're like me, further link the .bitcoin blockchain/cache to a larger drive, the blockchain is approaching 40G at last check.

You must also edit the rpc config(~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf) then place the exported port in your run statement, if you wish to expose it to the host machine.

docker run --name bitcoin -d -it -p 21234:21234 -v /home/your_user/yourcryptofolder/bitcoin/:/bitcoin/ -v /home/your_user/.bitcoin/:/root/.bitcoin/ checkoutcrypto/bitcoin

or substitute our image(checkoutcrypto/bitcoin) for ubuntu:14.04 then apt-get update and commit it.

Start bitcoin daemon within the running container with (must have latest Docker):

docker exec -it bitcoin /bitcoin/bin/bitcoind

Make sure you edit the rpc config and set the rpcallowip= for each container you want to allow to connect to it. Use the following on any container, to find the "IPAddress": "172...*"

docker inspect bitcoin  

To test RPC connection to this container from others, use:

curl youruser:yourrpcpass@yourip:yourport --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "getinfo", "params": [] }'