Micro Bitcoin Payment Service

A micro service for adding bitcoin payment to your node application. using node 8.0

Prerequisites

To install this module you need to have node installed in your loacl machine and also npm and/or yarn.

Testing

To run a unit test use the following command:

  npm run test

Usage

To use with the micro service you need to install some modules first with:

  npm install --save bitcoin-payment-mircoservice

Or you use yarn to install the package:

 yarn add bitcoin-payment-mircoservice

then in your javascript file add

  const bitcoinPayment = require('bitcoin-payment-mircoservice')

To get the current bitcoin balance of an address use:

 const balance =  bitcoinPayment.getBalance(address) // returns address balance
 console.log('bitcoin Balance', balance)

returns

  bitcoin Balance 0.009797

To generate a new bitcoin address

  const address = bitcoinPayment.createAddress() // returns a bitcoin address with private key
  console.log(address)

returns

 {
   address: '1K3QovFjbXG9HMYSfTE8WMc7EHhhpJSGwT',
   privateKey: 'achgjxsdvhjahkjlxkdcbazagshkjlskncvgshjasluyihkjaknjxs'
 }
 ** NOTE: Please always secure your private key

To send Bitcoin to an address

 sendBTC (paperWallet, toAddress, amount, network) =>  transactionID
 // paperWallet - Generated address with private key to validate the transaction
 // amount -  amount to be sent in satoshi
 // toAddress - Bitcoin address to receive the amount
 // network - which could either 'testnet' or 'livenet/mainnet'

To listen to an address on a network for a transaction

  bitcoinPayment.listenToLiveTransaction(address) => tx

Will trigger the event in real time if a payment is done to that address:

 Transaction detected! { address: '138WJKb1mXbkRGNpyMVEZ9EsoXjMEvJfT4',
 amount: 381000 }

### Built with

• Node Js - javascript runtime engine
• Bitcoin-live-transactions NPM package
• Bitcoinjs-lib from bitcoinjs
• Bitcore-lib from bitcore-lib
• Bitcore-explorers from Bitcore-explorers
• Axios