Multiple Bitcoin Environment (regtest)

Overview

This script easily builds two communicable bitcoin-core daemons.

The daemons run in regtest mode.

Also, they run as docker containers.

• OS: Ubuntu Bionic(18.04)
• Bitcoin Core: 0.18.1

Requirement

• Vagrant ( 2.2.0 )
• VirtualBox ( 5.2.20 )

Usage

• installation

$ git clone https://github.com/kadokko/env-multi-bitcoin.git
$ cd env-multi-bitcoin
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh
$ cd /vagrant_share
$ ./start.sh

• bitcoin-cli

$ docker exec -it bitcoin1 /bin/bash
$ bitcoin-cli generate 3
$ exit

$ docker exec -it bitcoin2 /bin/bash
$ bitcoin-cli getblockcount
$ exit

• bitcoin rpc

$ curl --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"rpc-test", "method": "getblockcount", "params": [] }' \
       -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://user:password@localhost:18332/
$ curl --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"rpc-test", "method": "getblockcount", "params": [] }' \
       -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://user:password@localhost:19332/