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Add ways to talk to bitcoind running in the container

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@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ The changes from upstream include:
## Usage
### Pull
First pull the image from [Docker Hub]:
```bash
@ -37,7 +40,10 @@ docker pull lncm/bitcoind:0.17.1
[Docker Hub]: https://hub.docker.com/r/lncm/bitcoind
Then to run it, execute:
#### Start
Then to start bitcoind, execute:
```bash
docker run -it --rm \
@ -58,4 +64,27 @@ That will run bitcoind such that:
* port `8333` will be reachable for the peer-to-peer communication,
* port `28332` will be reachable for ZMQ **block** notifications,
* port `28333` will be reachable for ZMQ **transaction** notifications,
* created container will get named `bitcoind`,
* that command will run the container in the background and print the ID of the container being run.
#### Interact
To issue any commands to a running container, do:
```bash
docker exec -it bitcoind BINARY COMMAND
```
Where:
* `BINARY` is either `bitcoind` or `bitcoin-cli`, and
* `COMMAND` is something you'd normally pass to the binary
Examples:
```bash
docker exec -it bitcoind bitcoind --help
docker exec -it bitcoind bitcoind --version
docker exec -it bitcoind bitcoin-cli --help
docker exec -it bitcoind bitcoin-cli -getinfo
docker exec -it bitcoind bitcoin-cli getblockcount
```