A curated list of bitcoin services and tools for software developers
- 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
- 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.
- block.io
- BlockCypher
- Gem.co
- Insight
- Chain.com
- Coinbase Wallet
- Smartbit
- Cashier-BTC - Self-hosted payment gateway.
- Chainradar API - Blockchain Explorer API for Chainradar.
- One-Time Address A better way to share your Bitcoin address.
- Chain.so
- Blockchain.com
- BlockTrail
- Bitcoin Transaction Explorer
- Blockexplorer.com
- Smartbit
- Bitkit - Real time transaction updates.
- Awesome CryptoCoinJS
- Bitcore Library
- Bitcoinjs-lib
- Cryptocoin
- BlockTrail SDK NodeJS
- bcoin - Javascript bitcoin library for node.js and browsers.
- 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.
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- @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...
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