Bitcoin uses JSON-RPC Connection.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/API_reference_(JSON-RPC)
I think there is some easybitcoin.php class or something if I remember also.
Topic: Access Bitcoin daemon from a virtual machine (Read 634 times)
This is my first time trying to run the Bitcoin daemon from the command line. Initially I gave up trying to do this locally and was wairing around for my partner to buy a dedicated host for my server. However, I'm getting bored waiting around for him to send me the server info. I have a Mac and an Ubuntu VM. It only has 5GB of disk storage and when I tried downloading the blockchain file to the VM, the disk ran out of space.
How do I install the daemon on my Mac and access it programmatically from the VM in PHP? I'm using Bitcoin RPC to access the daemon.
How do I install the daemon on my Mac and access it programmatically from the VM in PHP? I'm using Bitcoin RPC to access the daemon.
You might want to look at places like sourceforge and github to see if someone has already made a PHP interface for this problem.
You could always use the -prune command in the latest release of bitcoin core in order to get the full blockchain to download and not have to use up 100GB of space that you don't have on that vm (instead, only the last 2GB are kept)
Yeah the current block chain is around 100GB. Well with port forwarding you could let the server connect to your mac (through your public ip) OR through a reverse SSH tunnel (I'd prefer this because you wouldn't need to open a port on your pc). but your mac would have to run all the time it's needed. Also I'm sure you can set ip white list in the config files (for more security). Then for PHP I don't know I've never used any like that but I'm sure you could find some.
This is my first time trying to run the Bitcoin daemon from the command line. Initially I gave up trying to do this locally and was wairing around for myp[artner to buy a dedicated host for my server. However, I'm getting bored waiting around for him to send me the server info. I have a Mac and an Ubuntu VM. It only has 5GB of disk storage and when I tried downloading the blockchain file to the VM, the disk ran out of space.
How do I install the daemon on my Mac and access it programmatically from the VM in PHP? I'm using Bitcoin RPC to access the daemon.
How do I install the daemon on my Mac and access it programmatically from the VM in PHP? I'm using Bitcoin RPC to access the daemon.
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