Infrastructure

Overview

Components

• Peer/Node -- Maintains connections with the BitCoin network, and relays BitCoin traffic based on policies.
• Wallet -- Maintains private key database, and controls balances for the user.
• UI -- End-user interface. Could be a wx/Qt/GTK GUI, CLI, Android app, iPhone app, etc...
• Miner -- Tries to solve blocks for the wallet.

Protocols

• p2p -- Used for communication between Peers/Nodes, and also between your personal Peer/Node and your Wallet(s)
• JSON-RPC -- Old wallet-control protocol; suitable for web integration
• wallet -- Used for communication between your Wallet(s) and your Miner(s) and User Interface(s)

Diagram

 ___________
|           |--(p2p protocol)---ooooooooooooooo
| Peer/Node |--(p2p protocol)--o  Other Peers  o
|___________|--(p2p protocol)---ooooooooooooooo
      |
(p2p protocol)
 _____|_____                       _________
|           |                     |         |
|   Wallet  |--(wallet protocol)--|  Miner  |
|___________|                     |_________|
      |
(wallet protocol)
 _____|__________
|                |
| User Interface |
|________________|

Implementations

Peer/Node

Software
bitcoin.pl
bitcoind
bitcoin-alt
BitCoinJ
Pycoin
wxBitcoin
QBitcoin CORE

Wallet

Software	Old JSON-RPC	New Wallet protocol
bitcoind	Yes	No
BitCoinJ	??	No
wxBitcoin	Yes	No
QBitcoin Wallet	??	No

Miner

Software	Old JSON-RPC	New Wallet protocol
Cpu_Miner	Yes	No
DiabloMiner	Yes	No
Poclbm	Yes	No

User Interface

Software	Old JSON-RPC	New Wallet protocol
Bitcoin-js-remote	??	No
BitCoinJ	??	No
BitDroid	??	No
QBitcoin API Client	??	No
QBitcoin CLI	??	No
QBitcoin GUI	??	No
Java Bitcoin Client	??	No
Spesmilo	Yes	No
wxBitcoin	No	No