bitfeed/server

Building and Running the Bitfeed API Server

Prerequisites

• Elixir
• Bitcoin Full Node
  • unpruned
  • indexed
  • running in server mode
  • with ZMQ enabled
  • (see an example bitcoin.conf file here)

Installation

Set the MIX_TARGET environment variable to choose a build target (defaults to "personal")

"personal" - tailored to low traffic personal deployments. resource-intensive features & dependencies disabled

export MIX_TARGET=personal

or

"public" - tailored to high traffic, high performance public deployments.

export MIX_TARGET=public

✅❌

feature	"public"	"personal"
Spend index	✅	❌

mix do deps.get
mix do deps.compile

Configuration

The API server expects the following environment variables to be set:

variable	usage
MIX_ENV	compilation environment, either "prod" or "dev"
PORT	Port to expose the API (front end connects to this)
LOG_LEVEL	Tailor logging verbosity. either "error", "info" (default) or "debug"
RPC_POOLS	Number of connection pools for RPC requests to Bitcoin Core
RPC_POOL_SIZE	Number of connections maintained per pool (RPC_POOLS x RPC_POOL_SIZE should be substantially lower than rpcworkqueue in bitcoin.conf)
BITCOIN_HOST	Bitcoin node host address
BITCOIN_ZMQ_RAWBLOCK_PORT	Bitcoin node ZMQ port for block events (to match zmqpubrawblock in bitcoin.conf)
BITCOIN_ZMQ_RAWTX_PORT	Bitcoin node ZMQ port for transaction events (to match zmqpubrawtx in bitcoin.conf)
BITCOIN_ZMQ_SEQUENCE_PORT	Bitcoin node ZMQ port for sequence events (to match zmqpubsequence in bitcoin.conf)
BITCOIN_RPC_PORT	Bitcoin node RPC port
either
BITCOIN_RPC_USER	Bitcoin node RPC user
BITCOIN_RPC_PASS	Bitcoin node RPC password
or
BITCOIN_RPC_COOKIE	absolute path to a Bitcoin node RPC authentication .cookie file

Running in development

Compile and run in an interactive local shell:

iex -S mix

Building for production

mix release

Running production build

_build/prod/rel/prod/bin/prod start