Awesome Bitcoin
A curated list of bitcoin services and tools for software developers
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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.- BTC Tooling -
Bitcoin dashboard with real-time price data, a chart, orderbook, market
summary, Twitter/X insights, and halving countdown data. Live Demo
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
- kibō.money - An open source Bitcoin
Core data extractor and visualizer (aka FOSS Glassnode)
- Maestro - A
high-performance Bitcoin RPC and UTXO indexer API that powers
applications with real-time blockchain data, mempool monitoring, and
event notifications.
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
Open Source Wallets
Privacy projects
- Joinmarket
- Decentralized CoinJoin implementation
- Jam - User friendly frontend for
Joinmarket
Blockchain Explorers
C Libraries
C++ Libraries
JavaScript Libraries
PHP Libraries
Ruby Libraries
Rust Libraries
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
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++
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