Bitcore Node

A Bitcoin 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 Bitcoin 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 Explorer Guide

Part 1. Bitzec >1.0.6 with extended RPC functions

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bizec/bitcore-node-bitzec/master/installBitzecd.sh | bash

Part 2. Latest bitzec insight explorer = bitcore-node-bitzec with insight-api and insight-ui

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitzec/bitcore-node-bitzec/master/installExplorer.sh | bash

git clone https://github.com/bitzec/bitcore-node-bitzec.git
cd bitcore-node-bitzec
npm install
cd bin
./bitcore-node

Prerequisites

• GNU/Linux x86_32/x86_64, or OSX 64bit (for bitzecd distributed binaries)
• Node.js v0.10, v0.12 or v4
• ZeroMQ (libzmq3-dev for Ubuntu/Debian or zeromq on OSX)
• ~100GB of disk storage
• ~8GB of RAM

Configuration

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

bitcore-node create -d <bitcoin-data-dir> mynode
cd mynode
bitcore-node install <service>
bitcore-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 Bitcore:

• Insight API
• Insight UI
• Bitcore 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 2013-2015 BitPay, Inc.

• bitcoin: Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Bitcoin Core Developers (MIT License)