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+.DS_Store
+
+/.idea
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+# Build stage for BerkeleyDB
+FROM alpine as berkeleydb
+
+RUN sed -i 's/http\:\/\/dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/https\:\/\/alpine.global.ssl.fastly.net/g' /etc/apk/repositories
+RUN apk --no-cache add autoconf
+RUN apk --no-cache add automake
+RUN apk --no-cache add build-base
+RUN apk --no-cache add libressl
+
+ENV BERKELEYDB_VERSION=db-4.8.30.NC
+ENV BERKELEYDB_PREFIX=/opt/${BERKELEYDB_VERSION}
+
+RUN wget https://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/${BERKELEYDB_VERSION}.tar.gz
+RUN tar -xzf *.tar.gz
+RUN sed s/__atomic_compare_exchange/__atomic_compare_exchange_db/g -i ${BERKELEYDB_VERSION}/dbinc/atomic.h
+RUN mkdir -p ${BERKELEYDB_PREFIX}
+
+WORKDIR /${BERKELEYDB_VERSION}/build_unix
+
+RUN ../dist/configure --enable-cxx --disable-shared --with-pic --prefix=${BERKELEYDB_PREFIX}
+RUN make -j1
+RUN make install
+RUN rm -rf ${BERKELEYDB_PREFIX}/docs
+
+# Build stage for Bitcoin Core
+FROM alpine as bitcoin-core
+
+COPY --from=berkeleydb /opt /opt
+
+RUN sed -i 's/http\:\/\/dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/https\:\/\/alpine.global.ssl.fastly.net/g' /etc/apk/repositories
+RUN apk --no-cache add autoconf
+RUN apk --no-cache add automake
+RUN apk --no-cache add boost-dev
+RUN apk --no-cache add build-base
+RUN apk --no-cache add chrpath
+RUN apk --no-cache add file
+RUN apk --no-cache add gnupg
+RUN apk --no-cache add libevent-dev
+RUN apk --no-cache add libressl
+RUN apk --no-cache add libressl-dev
+RUN apk --no-cache add libtool
+RUN apk --no-cache add linux-headers
+RUN apk --no-cache add protobuf-dev
+RUN apk --no-cache add zeromq-dev
+RUN set -ex \
+  && for key in \
+    90C8019E36C2E964 \
+  ; do \
+    gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys "$key" || \
+    gpg --keyserver keyserver.pgp.com --recv-keys "$key" || \
+    gpg --keyserver ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys "$key" || \
+    gpg --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys "$key" ; \
+  done
+
+ENV BITCOIN_VERSION=0.17.1
+ENV BITCOIN_PREFIX=/opt/bitcoin-${BITCOIN_VERSION}
+
+RUN wget https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-${BITCOIN_VERSION}/SHA256SUMS.asc
+RUN wget https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-${BITCOIN_VERSION}/bitcoin-${BITCOIN_VERSION}.tar.gz
+RUN gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.asc
+RUN grep " bitcoin-${BITCOIN_VERSION}.tar.gz\$" SHA256SUMS.asc | sha256sum -c -
+RUN tar -xzf *.tar.gz
+
+WORKDIR /bitcoin-${BITCOIN_VERSION}
+
+RUN sed -i '/AC_PREREQ/a\AR_FLAGS=cr' src/univalue/configure.ac
+RUN sed -i '/AX_PROG_CC_FOR_BUILD/a\AR_FLAGS=cr' src/secp256k1/configure.ac
+RUN sed -i s:sys/fcntl.h:fcntl.h: src/compat.h
+RUN ./autogen.sh
+RUN ./configure LDFLAGS=-L`ls -d /opt/db*`/lib/ CPPFLAGS=-I`ls -d /opt/db*`/include/ \
+    --prefix=${BITCOIN_PREFIX} \
+    --mandir=/usr/share/man \
+    --disable-tests \
+    --disable-bench \
+    --disable-wallet \
+    --disable-ccache \
+    --with-gui=no \
+    --with-utils \
+    --with-libs \
+    --with-daemon
+RUN make -j1
+RUN make install
+RUN strip ${BITCOIN_PREFIX}/bin/bitcoin-cli
+RUN strip ${BITCOIN_PREFIX}/bin/bitcoin-tx
+RUN strip ${BITCOIN_PREFIX}/bin/bitcoind
+RUN strip ${BITCOIN_PREFIX}/lib/libbitcoinconsensus.a
+RUN strip ${BITCOIN_PREFIX}/lib/libbitcoinconsensus.so.0.0.0
+
+# Build stage for compiled artifacts
+FROM alpine
+
+LABEL maintainer.0="João Fonseca (@joaopaulofonseca)" \
+  maintainer.1="Pedro Branco (@pedrobranco)" \
+  maintainer.2="Rui Marinho (@ruimarinho)" \
+  maintainer.3="nolim1t (@nolim1t)"
+
+RUN adduser -S bitcoin
+RUN sed -i 's/http\:\/\/dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/https\:\/\/alpine.global.ssl.fastly.net/g' /etc/apk/repositories
+RUN apk --no-cache add \
+  boost \
+  boost-program_options \
+  libevent \
+  libressl \
+  libzmq \
+  su-exec
+
+ENV BITCOIN_DATA=/home/bitcoin/.bitcoin
+ENV BITCOIN_VERSION=0.17.1
+ENV BITCOIN_PREFIX=/opt/bitcoin-${BITCOIN_VERSION}
+ENV PATH=${BITCOIN_PREFIX}/bin:$PATH
+
+COPY --from=bitcoin-core /opt /opt
+
+VOLUME ["/home/bitcoin/.bitcoin"]
+
+EXPOSE 8332 8333 18332 18333 18444 28333 28332
+
+
+CMD ["bitcoind", "-datadir=/home/bitcoin/.bitcoin", "-zmqpubrawblock=tcp://0.0.0.0:28332", "-zmqpubrawtx=tcp://0.0.0.0:28333"]