plebhash / nix-bitcoin-core-archive

An archive of Nix derivations for old bitcoin releases and custom forks.
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Nix Bitcoin Core Archive

nix-bitcoin is useful for running up-to-date bitcoin-core.

But sometimes, we need to run old or patched releases in a nix environment.

nix-bitcoin-core-archive provides Nix derivations for:

Note: darwin is not yet supported. Derivarions are only tested on Linux.

instructions

Just cd into the directory of the chosen version, and then do a nix-build. The build artifacts will be placed at result. For example, if you want to run 0.21.0:

$ cd core/0.21.0
$ nix-build
$ ls result/bin
bitcoin-cli  bitcoind  bitcoin-qt  bitcoin-tx  bitcoin-wallet

Bitcoin Core


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