Libbitcoin

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Libbitcoin is a set of cross platform C++ libraries for building bitcoin applications. The toolkit consists of several libraries, example applications, test suites and end-user applications.

Status

Libbitcoin is actively maintained. Since version 2.0 the original projects of Libbitcoin, Obelisk and SX have been rationalized under a common repository, taxonomy and build system.

Libbitcoin Libraries

History

Libbitcoin was created by a community of open source developers led by Amir Taaki (genjix).[1]

Libbitcoin was announced on July 21, 2011.[2]

The related command line utility SubvertX (SX) was announced on November 2, 2011.[3]

Obelisk was first released on January 6, 2014, with an update to SX and the second major release of Libbitcoin.[4]

Eric Voskuil (evoskuil) redesigned SX in 2014 and released it as Libbitcoin Explorer (BX 2.0) on December 13, 2014.[5]

Libbitcoin Server (BS 2.0) was released on On May 9th, 2015, replacing Obelisk. A blockchain redesign by genjix substantially improved query performance[6].

Early Contributors

Projects Using Libbitcoin

See Also

References