How to accept Bitcoin on a website using Electrum and Letsencrypt
This tutorial will show you how to accept Bitcoin on a website with SSL signed payment requests using Electrum, required is a shell access and enough permission to install electrum
- A webserver serving static HTML
- A SSL certificate (signed by a CA)
- Electrum version >= 2.6
Install dependencies:
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pyqt5 python3-pip
Install Electrum:
sudo pip3 install https://download.electrum.org/3.0.3/Electrum-3.0.3.tar.gz
then run on your server
electrum create electrum daemon start electrum setconfig ssl_privkey /etc/letsencrypt/live/xxxxxx.com/privkey.pem electrum setconfig ssl_chain /etc/letsencrypt/live/xxxxxx.com/cert.pem electrum setconfig requests_dir /home/xxxxxx.com/httpdocs/r electrum setconfig url_rewrite "['file:///home/xxxxxx.com/httpdocs/','https://www.xxxxxx.com/']" electrum addrequest 0.015 -m "Payment for Acme.inc service"
this will return a json with the URL to present to your customers. eg. >https://www.xxxxxx.org/r/index.html?id=7c2888541a
