@Bcoin

An alternative implementation of the #Bitcoin protocol written in NodeJS. Full node, SPV node, BIP44 wallet and more. Used by @purseio and many others.

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Join us in our new Telegram channel! t.me/bcoinorg If your company or project uses bcoin, connect with us here to discuss future improvements and get all your questions answered!
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It fills me with immense pride and satisfaction to look back upon SoB 2023. Thank you @Vasu40733027 and @themanavdesai for your invaluable additions to @Bcoin. Special thanks to @MatthewZipkin and @masterchief164 for their review, insight, discussion and general handsomeness!! 🧡
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Concluding my Summer of Bitcoin journey, dive into my blog for my experience. My heartfelt appreciation goes to my mentors, @theanmolsharma_ and @MatthewZipkin , as well as @summerofbitcoin and @adi_shankara_ , for providing me with this opportunity. link.medium.com/linOXr18nCb

Output Script Descriptors in Bcoin- Sumer of Bitcoin ‘23

During this summer, I was fortunate to engage in the ‘Support for output script descriptors’ project within the Bcoin organization…

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Descriptor support marches forward with RPC deriveaddresses! Written by @Vasu40733027 and reviewed by @theanmolsharma_ with support from @summerofbitcoin Amazing contributions thank you! 🚀🌈🕺 github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin/p…

Adds deriveaddresses rpc by Vasu-08 · Pull Request #1162 · bcoin-org/bcoin

This pr implements deriveaddresses rpc.

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Merged PR: Wallet descriptors by @Vasu40733027 Starting with rpc getdescriptorinfo, descriptors are coming to bcoin! Thanks to @theanmolsharma_ for review and @summerofbitcoin for support! github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin/p…

Adds descriptor module with getdescriptorinfo rpc by Vasu-08 · Pull Request #1152 · bcoin-org/bcoin

This pr implements getdescriptorinfo rpc by adding a descriptor module. If the argument string of getdescriptorinfo() rpc is a valid string it is parsed into a AbstractDescriptor object. Along with...

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Announcing @theanmolsharma_ as the 2nd recruit into the team. Anmol is a young shadowy supercoder from India who contributed to @Bcoin and is hugely motivated to churn deep technical educational content for aspiring young devs. Stay tuned for his fiery #Bitcoin deep dives!!
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We're also proud to share that this year, @theanmolsharma_ will don the mentor's hat and guide new student devs on open source development for @Bcoin .
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bcoin projects for @summerofbitcoin 2023 are posted! summerofbitcoin.org/project-…
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The Summer of Bitcoin Experience - EP10 We speak with Ayush Anand, a 20-year old university student from Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India 🇮🇳 & a Summer of Bitcoin 2022 intern who contributed to @Bcoin . 🔗: youtu.be/KHtERKz6_2I
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The Summer of Bitcoin Experience is co-sponsored by BOL2, more about them here: buildonl2.com Join us next week for a conversation with Ayush Anand from Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India 🇮🇳 and Summer of Bitcoin 2022 intern who has contributed to @Bcoin
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Merged PR from @ShaswatGupta9: Updated sync progress function. During initial sync we estimated progress based on number of transactions left to process, instead of time. github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin/p…

Fix: updated the sync progress function by masterchief164 · Pull Request #1110 · bcoin-org/bcoin

Closes #886 We now calculate the progress according to the number of blocks mined until 17:36:38 UTC on 3rd December 2022 and then extrapolate the number of blocks assuming the 144 blocks are mined...

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I wrote this text explaining how BIP47 works with an implementation using @Bcoin. If you're new to BIP47, aka Reusable Payment Codes, it's a way of avoiding address reuse while still having a static address. Check the thread for a summary (1/7) medium.com/@ottosch/how-bip4…

How BIP47 Works

BIP47, also known as Reusable Payment Codes for Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets, is a proposal by Justus Ranvier that enables us to…

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@PurseIO @redeeem @defiantwallet @yellowcard_app @CasaHODL @NamebaseHQ ... Still using bcoin?
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Replying to @summerofbitcoin @Bcoin
Summer of Bitcoin has been life-changing for me. It has given me purpose. I'll be forever grateful.
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The Summer of Bitcoin Experience - EP1 We speak with Anmol Sharma, a 21-year old university student from India 🇮🇳 & a Summer of Bitcoin 2022 intern who contributed to Bcoin - a bitcoin implementation in Javascript. 🔗: youtu.be/lDm-YPzacxU
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Pleased to publish my 5th annual Bitcoin node sync performance report! blog.lopp.net/2022-bitcoin-n…

2022 Bitcoin Node Performance Tests

Testing full validation syncing performance of 9 Bitcoin node implementations.

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Every Bitcoin node implementation that was actively developed in 2022 ended up seeing sync performance improvements compared to my 2021 tests. You can read my full report at blog.lopp.net/2022-bitcoin-n…
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There isn’t one single program or code that everyone runs, anyone can run their own code, as long as they agree to the consensus rules. The conversation is so cool 😎 and makes me want to play around with some of the other implementations!!
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Replying to @lopp @Bcoin
Full validation sync of @Bcoin v2.2.0 to block 760,000 completed in 1 day, 8 hours, 8 min on my benchmark machine.
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BEE@RandyMcMillan16 Nov 2022
running #Bitcoin (on iOS)
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