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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
• C++ Libraries
• JavaScript Libraries
• PHP Libraries
• Ruby Libraries
• Python Libraries
• Java Libraries
• Scala Libraries
• Swift Libraries
• .Net Libraries
• Haskell Libraries
• Playgrounds
• Blockchain dump
• Full nodes
• Read
• Course
• Additional Resources

Utilities

• Nigiri - CLI to quickly fire up a a Bitcoin regtest box along with Electrs and Esplora. Includes faucet and push commands.
• hal - Bitcoin CLI swiss-army-knife (based on rust-bitcoin).
• BitKey - Live USB for airgapped transactions and Bitcoin swiss army knife.
• Pycoin - Python-based Bitcoin and alt-coin utility library.
• bx - Bitcoin Command Line Tool.
• txwatcher - A 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
• HD Wallet Scanner - Find all used addresses in your Bitcoin HD wallets bypassing gap limits.
• <qr-code> – A no-framework, no-dependencies, customizable, animate-able, SVG-based <qr-code> web component.

Blockchain API and Web services

• 3xpl.com - Fastest ad-free universal block explorer.
• Bitquery.io - Bitquery provides blockchain data, offering real-time streaming APIs for 40+ chains, NFT APIs, and a money flow investigation tool.
• block.io
• blockchair.com - Universal blockchain explorer and search engine.
• BlockCypher
• Esplora - Self-hosted blockchain explorer.
• Insight
• Chain.com
• Coinbase Wallet
• Chainradar API - Blockchain Explorer API for Chainradar.
• One-Time Address A better way to share your Bitcoin address.
• Cryptocurrency Alerting - Bitcoin wallet monitoring and blockchain alerts.
• BTC Connect - Unified Bitcoin Layer-1 and Layer-2 wallet connection and account abstraction.
• Tatum - The blockchain development platform to build Web3 application. The go-to blockchain data API for Web3 developers.
• mempool.space - Open source and self hostable REST, WebSocket and Electrum RPC API
• Satonomics - A better, FOSS, Bitcoin-only, self-hostable Glassnode

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
• walletOS

Open Source Wallets

• CoPay by BitPay
• Coinb.in
• Coin Wallet
• Electrum
• Green
• Sparrow

Privacy projects

• Joinmarket - Decentralized CoinJoin implementation
• Jam - User friendly frontend for Joinmarket

Blockchain Explorers

• 3xpl.com - Fastest ad-free universal block explorer.
• Chain.so
• Blockchain.com
• Blockchair.com - Universal blockchain explorer and search engine.
• Blockstream.info - Blockchain explorer with API (mainnet, testnet and Liquid).
• BlockTrail
• Bitcoin Transaction Explorer
• Blockexplorer.com
• Smartbit
• Bitkit - Real time transaction updates.
• mempool.space - Open source, self hostable blockchain, mempool and lightning network explorer

C Libraries

• libsecp256k1

C++ Libraries

• Libbitcoin
• libwally-core

JavaScript Libraries

• Awesome CryptoCoinJS
• Bitcore Library
• Bitcoinjs-lib
• Cryptocoin
• BlockTrail SDK NodeJS
• bcoin - Javascript bitcoin library for node.js and browsers.
• Libauth – A lightweight, zero-dependency, JavaScript/TypeScript bitcoin library.
• noble-curves — audited implementation of secp256k1 + schnorr in pure typescript
• noble-secp256k1 — alternative implementation of secp256k1: size is only 4KB gzipped; lots of comments, very valuable for learning how algorithms work
• scure-btc-signer — audited & minimal library for creating, signing & decoding Bitcoin transactions. With Schnorr, Taproot, UTXO & PSBT.
• bitcoin-sdk-js — Bitcoin TypeScript/JavaScript Library for NodeJS, Browser and Mobile. Segwit & Taproot support.

PHP Libraries

• PHP-OP_RETURN
• BlockTrail PHP SDK

Ruby Libraries

• Bitcoin-ruby
• bitcoinrb - Ruby bitcoin library including script interpreter.
• bech32rb - Bech32 and Bech32m encode/decode library.
• bip-schnorrrb - Schnorr signature library for Bitcoin.

Rust Libraries

• Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK) - With BDK, you can seamlessly build cross platform mobile wallets
• Rust Bitcoin - support for de/serialization, parsing and executing on data-structures and network messages.
• Lightning Dev Kit (LDK) - Complete Lightning implementation packaged as an SDK

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.
• oogway - A secure Bitcoin utility library for Python.
• pybtc - Python BTC is an experimental project that aims to provide human-friendly interfaces for common BTC operations.

Java Libraries

Note that you can also use Scala libraries in Java.

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

Swift libraries

• secp256k1.swift - Swift package for secp256k1 applications, includes Elliptic Curve operations, Schnorr, ZKP and more for Bitcoin.

.Net Libraries

• NBitcoin - Comprehensive 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#.

Haskell Libraries

• Haskoin-core - Haskoin Core is a library of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash functions written in Haskell.

Playgrounds

• Script Playground
• Bitcoin IDE - Bitcoin Script for dummies.
• 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.
• Bitauth IDE – An interactive development environment for Bitcoin contracts.
• ChainQuery Bitcoin RPC - Run select bitcoin RPC API calls and read full RPC docs in your browser.

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.
• Chaingraph – A multi-node blockchain indexer and GraphQL API.

Full nodes

• btcd - Go-based full node since 2013.
• Bitcoin-ruby-node - bitcoin node based on bitcoin-ruby-blockchain.
• Fullnode - Javascript implementation of bitcoin.
• Bitcore Node - bitcoind linked to node.js by BitPay.
• Bitcore - Formerly just a Nodejs library, now a full node.
• Bitcoin Core - direct descendant of the original Bitcoin implementation in C++

Read

• A Gentle Introduction to Bitcoin Core Development
• 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 .
• Bitcoin Protocol Development Curriculum - Chaincode Labs .
• 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
• Svrgnty.com: Everything Bitcoin A curated list of the best Bitcoin resources.
• River Learn A collection of educational resources to learn about Bitcoin basics, investing, technology, and more.

• Learn me a Bitcoin - Greg Walker - extensive learning ressource for bitcoin developers

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