Awesome Bitcoin

A curated list of bitcoin services and tools for software developers

List of content

• Utilities
• Blockchain API and Web services
• Wallets API
• Open Source wallets
• Blockchain Explorers
• C++ Libraries
• JavaScript Libraries
• PHP Libraries
• Ruby Libraries
• Python Libraries
• Java Libraries
• Scala Libraries
• .Net Libraries
• Playgrounds
• Blockchain dump
• Full nodes
• Read
• Course
• Additional Resources

Utilities

•    122 Nigiri - CLI to quickly fire up a a Bitcoin regtest box along with Electrs and Esplora. Includes faucet and push commands.
•      2 Nigiri in Travis - Travis template for adding Nigiri to your Travis (or Github Action) pipeline.
•     77 hal - Bitcoin CLI swiss-army-knife (based on rust-bitcoin).
• BitKey - Live USB for airgapped transactions and Bitcoin swiss army knife.
•   1270 Pycoin - Python-based Bitcoin and alt-coin utility library.
•    486 bx - Bitcoin Command Line Tool.
•     41 txwatcher - A little Python utility that lets you monitor Bitcoin addresses through Blockchain Websocket API and perform custom callbacks.
•    244 hellobitcoin - A collection of simple programs which can generate bitcoin wallets, create and sign transactions, and send transactions over the bitcoin network.
• Mining visualization
•     12 HD Wallet Scanner - Find all used addresses in your Bitcoin HD wallets bypassing gap limits.
•    110 LibreSelery - Automated Bitcoin distribution to your project contributors and dependencies integrated into GitHub Actions.

Blockchain API and Web services

• block.io
• BlockCypher
•    645 Esplora - Self-hosted blockchain explorer.
• Gem.co
• Insight
• Chain.com
• Coinbase Wallet
• Smartbit
• Blockpulsar.com
•    242 Cashier-BTC - Self-hosted payment gateway.
•      2 Chainradar API - Blockchain Explorer API for Chainradar.
•     44 One-Time Address A better way to share your Bitcoin address.

Market Data API

• CoinMetrics.io JSON REST API (free as well as paid) with access to market data. Also CSV data file download available.
• Messari.io JSON REST API (free as well as paid) with access to market data, news, metrics, profile, etc.

Wallets API

• BitGo
• Coinbase
• Blockchain.com
• BIP32

Open Source Wallets

• CoPay by BitPay
• Coinb.in
• Electrum

Blockchain Explorers

• Chain.so
• Blockchain.com
• Blockstream.info - Blockchain explorer with API (mainnet, testnet and Liquid).
• BlockTrail
•    172 Bitcoin Transaction Explorer
• Blockexplorer.com
• Smartbit
• Bitkit - Real time transaction updates.

C++ Libraries

• Libbitcoin
•    204 libwally-core
•   1431 secp256k1

JavaScript Libraries

•     54 Awesome CryptoCoinJS
•   4315 Bitcore Library
•   4561 Bitcoinjs-lib
• Cryptocoin
•     39 BlockTrail SDK NodeJS
•   2680 bcoin - Javascript bitcoin library for node.js and browsers.
• Libauth – A lightweight, zero-dependency, JavaScript/TypeScript bitcoin library.

PHP Libraries

•     78 PHP-OP_RETURN
•     42 BlockTrail PHP SDK

Ruby Libraries

•    901 Bitcoin-ruby

Python Libraries

•     20 BlockTrail SDK Python
•      9 btctxstore - Simple library to store/retrieve information in bitcoin transactions using OP_RETURN.
•   1217 pybitcointools - Python library for Bitcoin signatures and transactions from Vitalik Buterin. Project discontinued.
•   1270 pycoin - Python library for Bitcoin keys, signatures, transactions. Includes full VM implementation and tools for manipulating keys (ku) and transactions (tx).
•    220 bitcoin_tools - Python library for building and analyzing transactions and scripts (both standard and custom). Comes along with a UTXO set analysis tool. Includes several examples and exhaustive documentation.
•      9 oogway - A secure Bitcoin utility library for Python.

Java Libraries

Note that you can also use Scala libraries in Java.

• BitcoinJ
•   3449 XChange - Library that provides a simple and consistent API for interacting with 50+ Bitcoin currency exchanges.
•     26 Bitcoin Spring Boot Starter - Bitcoin integration for Spring Boot applications.

Scala libraries

Note that you can also use Java libraries in Scala.

• Bitcoin-S - Scala/JVM toolkit for Bitcoin applications, includes Bitcoin data structures, transaction signing, strongly typed bitcoind/Eclair RPC clients, and more.

.Net Libraries

•   1687 NBitcoin - Comprehensive Bitcoin library for the .NET framework.
•    375 BitcoinLib - The most complete, up-to-date, battle-tested .net Library and RPC Wrapper for Bitcoin and Altcoins in C#.
•     67 QBitNinja - An Open Source and powerful blockchain API.

Playgrounds

• Script Playground
•    179 Bitcoin IDE - Bitcoin Script for dummies.
•     11 Script Debugger
• Bitcore Playground
• Mnemonic Code generator
•   4348 blockchain-demo - A web-based demonstration of blockchain concepts.
•     50 Bitcoin Script Debugger - Visualize Bitcoin script execution for real transactions.
• Bitauth IDE – An interactive development environment for Bitcoin contracts.

Blockchain dump

• WebBTC - These are postgres database dumps of the bitcoin-ruby-blockchain database generated by webbtc.com.
•    109 BitcoinDatabaseGenerator - A high performance data transfer tool that can be used to copy data from Bitcoin Core blockchain files to a SQL Server database.
•     61 Blockparser+SQL - Fast, quick and dirty bitcoin blockchain parser.
•    940 BitcoinABE - Abe: block browser for Bitcoin and similar currencies.
•     27 NBitcoin.Indexer - Scalable and fault-tolerant block chain indexer for Azure cloud platform.
•    136 Blockchain2Graph - Graph Database Builder.
•     19 Chaingraph – A multi-node blockchain indexer and GraphQL API.

Full nodes

•   4733 btcd - Go-based full node since 2013.
•     25 Bitcoin-ruby-node - bitcoin node based on bitcoin-ruby-blockchain.
•    196 Fullnode - Javascript implementation of bitcoin.
•    349 Bitcore Node - bitcoind linked to node.js by BitPay.
•   4315 Bitcore - Formerly just a Nodejs library, now a full node.

Read

• A Gentle Introduction to Bitcoin Core Development
•  19525 Mastering Bitcoin
• Grokking Bitcoin - An in-depth technical book with rich illustrations.
• Bitcoin Stackexchange
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography A Gentle Introduction.
•    129 Bitcoin Programming with BitcoinJS and Bitcoin Core CLI.
•    407 Bitcoin Protocol Development Curriculum - Chaincode Labs.
•    278 Lightning Network Protocol Development Curriculum - Chaincode Labs.
• btcinformation.org / Developer Documentation - Find useful resources, guides and reference material for developers.

Course

• Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency.

Additional Resources

• @lopp / Bitcoin Developers - Software developers who have experience working on Bitcoin implementations or applications.
• @lopp / Lightning Developers - Software developers with experience working on LN implementations / applications.
• Practical Bitcoin Info - Google Sheets.
• A brief history of Bitcoin development...
• bitcoin-resources.com Meta-list of Bitcoin resources, from books, articles, to podcasts.
• Jameson Lopp Bitcoin Resource List Very detailed curated Bitcoin resource list and meta-list by J. Lopp
• River Learn A collection of educational resources to learn about Bitcoin basics, investing, technology, and more.

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