About Bcoin.io

Bcoin is the first fullnode Bitcoin implementation built specifically for production systems at scale. Originally created to be used as backend infrastructure for Purse.io, Bcoin enables companies to spin up consumer-grade bitcoin applications/wallet systems without the long-term concern of scalability, and security. Engineered from the ground-up in Nodejs to create scalable, flexible, and efficient production-ready systems. Bcoin can be integrated into almost any desktop or browser application to enable native payments, using bitcoin’s trusted and robust global network.

Guide Contribution Guidelines

Submitting Ideas and Claiming Bounties

Have an idea for a guide you'd like to contribute to our collection of Bitcoin tutorials written with bcoin? Want to collect a bounty for a submitted guide? First head on over to the GitHub issues and see if your idea is already posted. Bounties will be placed on issues via bountysource and tagged with the "guide" label.

Adding a New Guide

To add a new guide, just a submit a Pull Request with a markdown file added to the /guides-markdown directory in this repo (take a look at some of the other guides already there). Make sure to include a title using a top level header (with a single # hashtag in the markdown) and then a post-author and post-description at the top using code-snippet blocks labeled accordingly. If your PR is accepted, it will automatically be converted to html, added to the website and any bounty associated with the GitHub issue will be yours!