BitcoinHD server for Docker

The BitcoinHD Core docker image.

Requirements

• Physical machine, cloud instance, or VPS that supports Docker (i.e. Vultr, Digital Ocean, KVM or XEN based VMs) running Ubuntu 14.04 or later (not OpenVZ containers!)
• At least 10 GB to store the block chain files (and always growing!)
• At least 1 GB RAM + 2 GB swap file

Really Fast Quick Start

One liner for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS machines with JSON-RPC enabled on localhost and adds upstart init script:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/btchd/docker-btchdd/master/bootstrap-host.sh | sh -s trusty

Quick Start

1. Create a btchdd-data volume to persist the btchdd blockchain data, should exit immediately. The btchdd-data container will store the blockchain when the node container is recreated (software upgrade, reboot, etc):

    docker volume create --name=btchdd-data
    docker run -v btchdd-data:/btchd --name=btchdd-node -d \
        -p 8733:8733 \
        -p 127.0.0.1:8732:8732 \
        btchd/btchdd
   

2. Verify that the container is running and btchdd node is downloading the blockchain

    $ docker ps
    CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                         COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                              NAMES
    d0e1076b2dca        btchd/btchdd:latest           "btchd_oneshot"     2 seconds ago       Up 1 seconds        127.0.0.1:8732->8732/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8733->8733/tcp   btchdd-node
   

3. You can then access the daemon's output thanks to the docker logs command

    docker logs -f btchdd-node
   

4. Install optional init scripts for upstart and systemd are in the init directory.

Documentation

• Additional documentation in the docs folder.