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An open source Bitcoin client built using Java and implements the Bitcoin network protocol.
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An open source Bitcoin client library built using Java and implements the Bitcoin network protocol. With version 0.7, it was renamed from BitCoinJ to '''bitcoinj'''.
  
The project was announced on March 7, 2011<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=4236.msg61438#msg61438 ANNOUNCE - BitCoinJ v0.1, a client-mode implementation in Java]</ref>
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The project was announced on March 7, 2011<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=4236.msg61438#msg61438 ANNOUNCE - BitCoinJ v0.1, a client-mode implementation in Java]</ref>.  The project was built by [[Mike Hearn]] while he was a Google employee as a "20 percent time" project<ref>[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2297686 Comment by Google's Chris Dibona on Hacker News]</ref>.
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==See Also==
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* [[Bitcoin Wallet]] - a standalone wallet for Android and BlackBerry devices
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* [[MultiBit]]
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* [[Hive]] - a wallet for Mac OS X with an integrated applications platform
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== Security ==
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* [[Thin_Client_Security#BitCoinJ]]
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* [http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/wiki/SecurityModel Security Model]
  
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
  
* [http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj BitCoinJ] project page on Google Code.
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* [http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj bitcoinj] project page on Google Code.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 17:31, 10 May 2016


An open source Bitcoin client library built using Java and implements the Bitcoin network protocol. With version 0.7, it was renamed from BitCoinJ to bitcoinj.

The project was announced on March 7, 2011[1]. The project was built by Mike Hearn while he was a Google employee as a "20 percent time" project[2].

See Also

  • Bitcoin Wallet - a standalone wallet for Android and BlackBerry devices
  • MultiBit
  • Hive - a wallet for Mac OS X with an integrated applications platform

Security

External Links

References