A Docker container designed to run on a Raspbery Pi, in order to turn it into an Bitcoin Cash full node running the ABC version of the client. The blockchain is expected to be stored on a 256GB USB flash drive attachd to the RPi.

Note: Syncing from genesis will take months on a Raspberry Pi, and may never finish. But if the synced blockchain is downloaded to its flash drive, a RPi can easily maintain the full node. See bchjs.cash.

It's assumed that you are starting with a fresh installation of Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi B+ v3.

• Clone this repository in your home directory with the following command: git clone https://github.com/christroutner/docker-abc-rpi

• Initialze the RPi by running the ./init-rpi.sh bash script. This will remove a lot of unneeded software, update the OS, install Node.js and Docker.

• Add 2GB of swap space by following this gist

• Format and permently mount the 256 GB USB flash drive by following this gist

• Build the docker container by running the build script: ./build-image.sh

• Run the container with the run script: ./run-image.sh

• Check on the status of bitcoind as it syncs to the blockchain: sudo tail /media/usb/debug.log

• Check the version of ABC running by using curl against the JSON RPC:

curl --data-binary '{"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"curltext","method":"getinfo","params":[]}' -H 'content-type:text/plain;' http://bitcoin:[email protected]:8332/

curl --data-binary '{"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"curltext","method":"getblockchaininfo","params":[]}' -H 'content-type:text/plain;' http://bitcoin:[email protected]:8332/