koteth/awesome-bitcoin

A curated list of bitcoin services and tools for software developers

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
• JavaScript Libraries
• PHP Libraries
• Ruby Libraries
• Python Libraries
• Java Libraries
• Playgrounds
• Read

Utilities

• 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.

Wallets API

• BitGo
• Coinbase
• Blockchain.info
• BIP32

Open Source Wallets

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

Blockchain Explorers

• Chain.so
• Blockchain.info
• BlockTrail
• Blockr
• Bitcoin Transaction Explorer
• Blockexplorer.com
• Smartbit

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. Not really maintained
• pycoin Python library for Bitcoin keys, signatures, transactions. Includes full VM implementation and tools for manipulating keys (ku) and transactions (tx).

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
• Bitcore Playground
• Mnemonic Code generator
• blockchain-demo A web-based demonstration of blockchain concepts

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.

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

Inspired by the awesome list thing. Created by BlockchainU fellows.

License

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