A platform to build bitcoin and blockchain-based applications.
npm install bitcoreBitcore
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Infrastructure to build Bitcoin and blockchain-based applications for the next generation of financial technology.
Note: If you're looking for the Bitcore Library please see: https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore-lib
Before you begin you'll need to have Node.js v4 or v0.12 installed. There are several options for installation. One method is to use nvm to easily switch between different versions, or download directly from Node.js.
``bash`
npm install -g bitcore
Spin up a full node and join the network:
`bash`
npm install -g bitcore
bitcored
You can then view the Insight block explorer at the default location: http://localhost:3001/insight, and your configuration file will be found in your home directory at ~/.bitcore.
Create a transaction:
`js`
var bitcore = require('bitcore');
var transaction = new bitcore.Transaction();
var transaction.from(unspent).to(address, amount);
transaction.sign(privateKey);
- Node - A full node with extended capabilities using Bitcoin Core
- Insight API - A blockchain explorer HTTP API
- Insight UI - A blockchain explorer web user interface
- Wallet Service - A multisig HD service for wallets
- Wallet Client - A client for the wallet service
- CLI Wallet - A command-line based wallet client
- Angular Wallet Client - An Angular based wallet client
- Copay - An easy-to-use, multiplatform, multisignature, secure bitcoin wallet
- Lib - All of the core Bitcoin primatives including transactions, private key management and others
- Payment Protocol - A protocol for communication between a merchant and customer
- P2P - The peer-to-peer networking protocol
- Mnemonic - Implements mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys
- Channel - Micropayment channels for rapidly adjusting bitcoin transactions
- Message - Bitcoin message verification and signing
- ECIES - Uses ECIES symmetric key negotiation from public keys to encrypt arbitrarily long data streams.
The complete docs are hosted here: bitcore documentation. There's also a bitcore API reference available generated from the JSDocs of the project, where you'll find low-level details on each bitcore utility.
- Read the Developer Guide
- Read the API Reference
To get community assistance and ask for help with implementation questions, please use our community forums.
We're using Bitcore in production, as are many others, but please use common sense when doing anything related to finances! We take no responsibility for your implementation decisions.
If you find a security issue, please email security@bitpay.com.
Please send pull requests for bug fixes, code optimization, and ideas for improvement. For more information on how to contribute, please refer to our CONTRIBUTING file.
This will generate files named bitcore.js and bitcore.min.js.
You can also use our pre-generated files, provided for each release along with a PGP signature by one of the project's maintainers. To get them, checkout a release commit (for example, https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore/commit/e33b6e3ba6a1e5830a079e02d949fce69ea33546 for v0.12.6).
To verify signatures, use the following PGP keys:
- @braydonf: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9BBF07CAC07A276D D909 EFE6 70B5 F6CC 89A3 607A 9BBF 07CA C07A 276D
- @gabegattis: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x441430987182732C
- @kleetus: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x33195D27EF6BDB7F
- @matiu: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9EDE6DE4DE531FAC
Code released under the MIT license.
Copyright 2013-2015 BitPay, Inc. Bitcore is a trademark maintained by BitPay, Inc.