A pure and simple javascript bitcoin API.

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.

Get Started

You can run bitcore on any javascript engine. It's distributed through npm, and you can also find compiled single files here: bitcore.js and bitcore.min.js.

npm install bitcore

Using it on node.js:

var bitcore = require('bitcore');

assert(bitcore.Address.isValid(address));
var simpleTx = new bitcore.Transaction();
var simpleTx.from(unspent).to(address, amount);
simpleTx.sign(privateKey);

Documentation

The complete docs are hosted here: bitcore documentation. There's also a bitcore API reference available generated from the JSDocs of the project, but we're still working on the quality and design of this API reference.

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

Please send pull requests for bug fixes, code optimization, and ideas for improvement.

Building the browser bundle

To build bitcore full bundle for the browser:

gulp browser

This will generate files named browser/bitcore.js and browser/bitcore.min.js.

Tests

Run all the tests:

gulp test

Run the tests with mocha:

gulp test:node

Run the tests with karma (uses firefox and chrome):

gulp test:browser

Create a coverage report (you can open coverage/lcov-report/index.html to visualize it):

gulp coverage

License

Code released under the MIT license.

Copyright 2013-2014 BitPay, Inc. Bitcore is a trademark maintained by BitPay, Inc.