BitcoinLib

C# Bitcoin, Litecoin, Gamerscoin, Dogecoin and Bitcoin-Clones Library & RPC Wrapper

Features

• Design-by-contract, service-oriented architecture.
• Strongly-typed structures for complex RPC requests and responses.
• Implicit JSON casting for all RPC messages.
• Extended methods for every-day scenarios where the built-in methods fall short.
• Exposure of all RPC API's functionality as well as the extended methods through a single interface.
• Fallback mechanism for timed-out RPC requests.
• Custom RPC exceptions.
• Supports all Bitcoin clones.
• Can operate on unlimited daemons with a single library reference.
• Litecoin and Dogecoin integrations included.
• Each coin instance can be fully parametrized at run-time and implement its own constants.
• Console test client with demo methods implemented in it.
• Disconnected raw RPC connector included for quick'n'dirty debugging.
• Testnet ready.
• MONO compatible.
• Blockchain.info compatible.
• Fully configurable.

Instructions for Gamerscoin

• Locate your gamerscoin.conf file (in Windows it's under: %AppData%\Roaming\gamerscoin, if it's not there just go ahead and create it) and add these lines:

  • rpcuser = MyRpcUsername
  • rpcpassword = MyRpcPassword
  • server=1
  • txindex=1

• Call gamerscoind -reindex -txindex -debug=net -printtoconsole and wait until it's finished re-indexing (it might take a while). Append -testnet if you want to run it for Testnet. You need to do this just once.

• Shut down gamerscoind and run it again with these arguments: gamerscoind -daemon -debug=net -printtoconsole. Append -testnet if you want to run it for Testnet. Wait until it is fully synchronized.

• Edit the app.config file in the Console test client to best fit your needs. Make sure you also update the gamerscoin.conf when you alter the Gamerscoin_RpcUsername and Gamerscoin_RpcPassword parameters.

• You're good to go.

License

BitcoinLib is released under the terms of the GPLv3 license. See LICENSE for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0.

Support

Please use GitHub's Issues. Premium support is also available here.

Pull Requests

Please contact the repository owner via e-mail before submitting your first pull request.

Donations

If you use BitcoinLib for a commercial project you are expected to make a donation. BTC: 1GeorgeKZn9SaTmGsuRQRasvoJS3YWzQ5a

Influenced by

• Bitnet, by Konstantin Ineshin
• BitcoinRpcSharp, by BitKoot
• Bitcoin-wrapper, by Lars Holdgaard

Credits

Thanks to everyone who contributed to making this library better: @OperatorOverload, Angelos Leoussis, everyone who reported any issues, et al.