testnet4-docker.md

Run a Bitcoin Testnet4 node using Docker

Using the available Docker image is fairly easy to run a Bitcoin Testnet4 node.

Step 1: Install Docker

Follow instructions to install Docker here.

Step 2: Run Testnet4 node using Docker:

Pull the correct Bitcoin image and run:

docker run -d \
  --name bitcoin-testnet4 \
  -p 18443:18443 \
  -p 18444:18444 \
  bitcoin/bitcoin:28.0rc1 \
  -printtoconsole \
  -testnet4=1 \
  -rest \
  -rpcbind=0.0.0.0 \
  -rpcallowip=0.0.0.0/0 \
  -rpcport=18443 \
  -rpcuser=citrea \
  -rpcpassword=citrea \
  -server \
  -txindex=1

Bitcoin Testnet4 node should be running in your system. You can check it with the following commmand:

curl --user citrea --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "getblockcount", "params": []}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://0.0.0.0:18443

--user & password asked are the rpcuser and rpcpassword fields that you used to run the docker command above.

Now you can proceed to run the Citrea client from here.

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If you do not want to use Docker to setup Bitcoin node, you can build it from the source code here.