Awesome Bitcoin

A curated list of bitcoin services and tools for software developers

List of content

• Utilities
• Blockchain API and Web service
• Wallets API
• Opensource wallets
• Blockchain Explorers
• Javascript Libraries
• PHP Libraries
• Ruby Libraries
• Python Libraries
• Java Libraries
• Playgrounds
• Read

Utilities

• Pycoin Python-based Bitcoin and alt-coin utility library.
• sx sx - command line Bitcoin to empower the sysadmin
• bx Bitcoin Command Line Tool
• txwatcherA little Python utility that lets you monitor Bitcoin addresses through Blockchain Websocket API and perform custom callbacks.
• hellobitcoin A collection of simple programs which can generate bitcoin wallets, create and sign transactions, and send transactions over the bitcoin network.

Blockchain API and Web services

• block.io
• BlockCypher
• Gem.co
• Insight
• Chain.com
• Toshi by Coinbase

Wallets API

• BitGo
• Coinbase
• Blockchain.info
• BIP32

Open Source Wallets

• CoPay by BitPay
• CoinPunk
• Coinb.in

Blockchain Explorers

• Chain.so
• Blockchain.info
• BlockTrail
• Blockr
• Bitcoin Transaction Explorer
• Blockexplorer.com

Javascript Libraries

• Bitcore
• Bitcoinjs-lib
• Cryptocoin
• BlockTrail SDK NodeJS

PHP Libraries

• PHP-OP_RETURN
• BlockTrain PHP SDK

Ruby Libraries

• Bitcoin-ruby

Python Libraries

• BlockTrail SDK Python
• btctxstore simple library to store/retrieve information in bitcoin transactions using OP_RETURN

Java Libraries

• BitcoinJ

.Net Libraries

• NBitcoin

Playgrounds

• Script Playground
• Bitcore Playground

Blockchain dump

• WebBTC These are postgres database dumps of the bitcoin-ruby-blockchain database generated by webbtc.com.
• BitcoinDatabaseGenerator A high performance data transfer tool that can be used to copy data from Bitcoin Core blockchain files to a SQL Server database
• Blockparser+SQL Fast, quick and dirty bitcoin blockchain parser
• BitcoinABE Abe: block browser for Bitcoin and similar currencies

Full nodes

• Bitcoinjs-server Bitcoin network node in JavaScript using Node.js / LevelDB
• Bitcoin-ruby-node bitcoin node based on bitcoin-ruby-blockchain
• Toshi by Coinbase An open source Bitcoin node built to power large scale web applications
• Fullnode Javascript implementation of bitcoin
• Insight API A bitcoin blockchain API for web wallets
• Bitcoind.JS bitcoind linked to node.js by BitPay

Read

• Mastering Bitcoin
• Bitcoin Stackexchange
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography A Gentle Introduction

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