Bitcore

A pure, powerful core for your bitcoin project.

Bitcore is a complete, native interface to the Bitcoin network, and provides the core functionality needed to develop apps for bitcoin.

#Principles Bitcoin is a powerful new peer-to-peer platform for the next generation of financial technology. The decentralized nature of the Bitcoin network allows for highly resilient bitcoin infrastructure, and the developer community needs reliable, open-source tools to implement bitcoin apps and services.

Bitcore unchains developers from fallible, centralized APIs, and provides the tools to interact with the real Bitcoin network.

#Get Started

Bitcore runs on node, and can be installed via npm:

npm install bitcore

It is a collection of objects useful to bitcoin applications; class-like idioms are enabled via Classtool. In most cases, a developer will require the object's class directly:

var Address = require('bitcore/Address').class();

#Examples

Validating a Bitcoin address:

var Address = require('bitcore/Address').class();

var addr = new Address("1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa");

try {
  addr.validate();
  console.log("Address is valid.");
} catch(e) {
  console.log(addr.data + " is not a valid address. " + e);
}

#Security Please use at your own risk.

Bitcore is still under heavy development and not quite ready for "drop-in" production use. If you find a security issue, please email security@bitcore.io.

#Contributing Bitcore needs some developer love. Please send pull requests for bug fixes, code optimization, and ideas for improvement.