Bcore Node

A BitcoinCore full node for building applications and services with Node.js. A node is extensible and can be configured to run additional services. At the minimum a node has an interface to BitcoinCore Core with additional indexing for more advanced address queries. Additional services can be enabled to make a node more useful such as exposing new APIs, running a block explorer and wallet service.

Install

npm install -g bcore-node
bcore-node start

Note: For your convenience, we distribute bitcoind binaries for x86_64 Linux and x86_64 Mac OS X. Upon npm install, the binaries for your platform will be downloaded. For more detailed installation instructions, or if you want to compile the project yourself, then please see the Bcore branch of BitcoinCore Core with additional indexing.

Prerequisites

• GNU/Linux x86_32/x86_64, or OSX 64bit (for bitcoind distributed binaries)
• Node.js v0.10, v0.12 or v4
• ZeroMQ (libzmq3-dev for Ubuntu/Debian or zeromq on OSX)
• ~200GB of disk storage
• ~8GB of RAM

Configuration

Bcore includes a Command Line Interface (CLI) for managing, configuring and interfacing with your Bcore Node.

bcore-node create -d <bitcoin-data-dir> mynode
cd mynode
bcore-node install <service>
bcore-node install https://github.com/yourname/helloworld

This will create a directory with configuration files for your node and install the necessary dependencies. For more information about (and developing) services, please see the Service Documentation.

Add-on Services

There are several add-on services available to extend the functionality of Bcore:

• Insight API
• Insight UI
• Bcore Wallet Service

Documentation

• Upgrade Notes
• Services
  • Bitcoind - Interface to Bitcoin Core
  • Web - Creates an express application over which services can expose their web/API content
• Development Environment - Guide for setting up a development environment
• Node - Details on the node constructor
• Bus - Overview of the event bus constructor
• Release Process - Information about verifying a release and the release process.

Contributing

Please send pull requests for bug fixes, code optimization, and ideas for improvement. For more information on how to contribute, please refer to our CONTRIBUTING file.

License

Code released under the MIT license.

Copyright 2016 The BitcoinCore Core Developers

• bitcore: Copyright (c) 2013-2015 BitPay, Inc. (MIT License)
• bitcoin: Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Bitcoin Core Developers (MIT License)