diff --git a/docker/gitian-bitcoin-host/Dockerfile b/docker/gitian-bitcoin-host/Dockerfile
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+
+FROM gdm85/gitian-host
+
+MAINTAINER Giuseppe Mazzotta "gdm85@users.noreply.github.com"
+
+RUN apt-get install -y parallel patch
+
+ADD gitian.patch /home/debian/
+
+WORKDIR /home/debian
+
+RUN cd gitian-builder && patch -p1 < ../gitian.patch
+
+ADD step1.sh /home/debian/
+ADD step2.sh /home/debian/
+
+RUN chown -R debian.debian /home/debian/
diff --git a/docker/gitian-bitcoin-host/gitian.patch b/docker/gitian-bitcoin-host/gitian.patch
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+diff --git a/bin/make-base-vm b/bin/make-base-vm
+index c1920f3..8a44f13 100755
+--- a/bin/make-base-vm
++++ b/bin/make-base-vm
+@@ -109,16 +109,3 @@ rm -rf $OUT
+ sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --rootsize 10240 --arch=$ARCH --suite=$SUITE --addpkg=$addpkg --removepkg=$removepkg --ssh-key=var/id_dsa.pub --ssh-user-key=var/id_dsa.pub --mirror=$MIRROR --secu
+ mv $OUT/*.qcow2 $OUT.qcow2
+ rm -rf $OUT
+-
+-if [ $LXC = "1" ]; then
+-    #sudo debootstrap --include=$addpkg --arch=$ARCH $SUITE $OUT-root $MIRROR
+-    echo Extracting partition for lxc
+-    qemu-img convert $OUT.qcow2 $OUT.raw
+-    loop=`sudo kpartx -av $OUT.raw|sed -n '/loop.p1/{s/.*loop\(.\)p1.*/\1/;p}'`
+-    sudo cp --sparse=always /dev/mapper/loop${loop}p1 $OUT
+-    sudo chown $USER $OUT
+-    sudo kpartx -d /dev/loop$loop
+-    rm -f $OUT.raw
+-    # bootstrap-fixup is done in libexec/make-clean-vm
+-fi
+-
diff --git a/docker/gitian-bitcoin-host/step1.sh b/docker/gitian-bitcoin-host/step1.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+if [[ -z "$VERSION" ]]; then
+	echo "Please define VERSION environment variable for bitcoin checkout" 1>&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+source ~/.bash_profile
+
+git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
+cd bitcoin
+git checkout v${VERSION}
+cd ../gitian-builder
+mkdir -p var
+if [ ! -e var/id_dsa ]; then
+  ssh-keygen -t dsa -f var/id_dsa -N ""
+fi
+
+export MIRROR_HOST=$GITIAN_HOST_IP
+SUITE=precise
+
+## build both VMs in parallel
+echo -e "MIRROR_HOST=$GITIAN_HOST_IP bin/make-base-vm --lxc --arch i386 --suite $SUITE\nMIRROR_HOST=$GITIAN_HOST_IP bin/make-base-vm --lxc --arch amd64 --suite $SUITE" | parallel -j2 || exit $?
+
+function ext_partition() {
+	local OUT=$1
+	echo Extracting $OUT partition for lxc
+	qemu-img convert $OUT.qcow2 $OUT.raw
+ 	loop=`sudo kpartx -av $OUT.raw|sed -n '/loop.p1/{s/.*loop\(.\)p1.*/\1/;p}'`
+	sudo cp --sparse=always /dev/mapper/loop${loop}p1 $OUT
+	sudo chown $USER $OUT
+	sudo sync
+	sleep 5
+	sudo kpartx -d /dev/loop$loop
+	sudo rm /dev/mapper/loop${loop}p1
+	rm -f $OUT.raw
+}
+
+ext_partition base-${SUITE}-i386 && \
+ext_partition base-${SUITE}-amd64 || exit $?
diff --git a/docker/gitian-bitcoin-host/step2.sh b/docker/gitian-bitcoin-host/step2.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+if [[ -z "$VERSION" ]]; then
+	echo "Please define VERSION environment variable for bitcoin checkout" 1>&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+if [[ "$VERSION" != "0.9.1" ]]; then
+	echo "Dependencies on this script are valid only for 0.9.1"
+	exit 2
+fi
+
+cd gitian-builder
+mkdir -p inputs; cd inputs/
+
+##
+## dependencies valid only for 0.9.1!
+##
+wget 'http://miniupnp.free.fr/files/download.php?file=miniupnpc-1.8.tar.gz' -O miniupnpc-1.8.tar.gz
+wget --no-check-certificate 'https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1g.tar.gz'
+wget 'http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz'
+wget 'http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz'
+wget 'ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png/src/history/libpng16/libpng-1.6.8.tar.gz'
+wget 'https://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/qrencode-3.4.3.tar.bz2'
+wget 'https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.55.0/boost_1_55_0.tar.bz2'
+wget 'https://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/5.2/5.2.0/single/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.2.0.tar.gz'
+wget 'https://protobuf.googlecode.com/files/protobuf-2.5.0.tar.bz2'
+cd ..
+./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/boost-linux.yml
+mv build/out/boost-*.zip inputs/
+./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/deps-linux.yml
+mv build/out/bitcoin-deps-*.zip inputs/
+./bin/gbuild --commit bitcoin=v${VERSION} ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-linux.yml