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
• C++ Libraries
• JavaScript Libraries
• PHP Libraries
• Ruby Libraries
• Python Libraries
• Java Libraries
• Playgrounds
• Read
• Course

Utilities

• BitKey Live USB for airgapped transactions and Bitcoin swiss army knife
• 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.
• Mining visualization

Blockchain API and Web services

• block.io
• BlockCypher
• Gem.co
• Insight
• Chain.com
• Toshi by Coinbase
• Smartbit
• Cashier-BTC - self-hosted payment gateway.
• Chainradar API Blockchain Explorer API for Chainradar

Wallets API

• BitGo
• Coinbase
• Blockchain.info
• BIP32

Open Source Wallets

• CoPay by BitPay
• CoinPunk
• Coinb.in
• Electrum

Blockchain Explorers

• Chain.so
• Blockchain.info
• BlockTrail
• Bitcoin Transaction Explorer
• Blockexplorer.com
• Smartbit
• Bitkit - Real time transaction updates

C++ Libraries

• Libbitcoin
• libwally-core
• secp256k1

JavaScript Libraries

• Awesome CryptoCoinJS
• Bitcore Library
• Bitcoinjs-lib
• Cryptocoin
• BlockTrail SDK NodeJS
• bcoin Javascript bitcoin library for node.js and browsers

PHP Libraries

• PHP-OP_RETURN
• BlockTrail PHP SDK

Ruby Libraries

• Bitcoin-ruby

Python Libraries

• BlockTrail SDK Python
• btctxstore simple library to store/retrieve information in bitcoin transactions using OP_RETURN
• pybitcointools Python library for Bitcoin signatures and transactions from Vitalik Buterin. Project discontinued.
• pycoin Python library for Bitcoin keys, signatures, transactions. Includes full VM implementation and tools for manipulating keys (ku) and transactions (tx).
• 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.

Java Libraries

• BitcoinJ
• XChange Library that provides a simple and consistent API for interacting with 50+ Bitcoin currency exchanges.

.Net Libraries

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

Playgrounds

• Script Playground
• Bitcoin IDE Bitcoin Script for dummies
• Debug Script Execution
• Script Debugger
• Bitcore Playground
• Mnemonic Code generator
• blockchain-demo A web-based demonstration of blockchain concepts
• Bitcoin Script Debugger Visualize Bitcoin script execution for real transactions

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
• NBitcoin.Indexer Scalable and fault-tolerant block chain indexer for Azure cloud platform.
• Blockchain2Graph Graph Database Builder

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
• Bitcore Formerly just a Nodejs library, now a full node

Read

• Mastering Bitcoin
• Grokking Bitcoin An in-depth technical book with rich illustrations.
• Bitcoin Stackexchange
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography A Gentle Introduction
• Bitcoin Programming with BitcoinJS and Bitcoin Core CLI

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Course

• Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency

License

To the extent possible under law, Igor Barinov has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.