Dockerized Bitcoin Core

What is Bitcoin Core?

Bitcoin Core is a reference client that implements the Bitcoin protocol for remote procedure call (RPC) use. It is also the second Bitcoin client in the network's history. Learn more about Bitcoin Core on the Bitcoin Developer Reference docs.

Usage

How to use this image

This image contains the main binaries from the Bitcoin Core project - bitcoind, bitcoin-cli and bitcoin-tx. It behaves like a binary, so you can pass any arguments to the image and they will be forwarded to the bitcoind binary:

❯ docker run --rm -it cryptodockerhub/bitcoin-core:latest

Mounting root directory

You can also mount a directory in a volume under /data in case you want to access it on the host:

> docker run -v /btc-data:/data -it -rm cryptodockerhub/bitcoin-core:latest

File Structure

For information on file structure, visit the crypto-docker/coin-base repository.

Compose File

version: "3"
services:
  bitcoind:
    hostname: bitcoin-core
    container_name: "bitcoin-core"
    image: cryptodockerhub/bitcoin-core:latest
    volumes:
      - bitcoincore:/data
volumes:
  bitcoincore:

How to change the config file

To make changes, you must link the root directory to any folder. You can edit the config.conf file under the root directory.