Libbitcoin
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.
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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
- libbitcoin
- libbitcoin-blockchain
- libbitcoin-client
- libbitcoin-consensus
- libbitcoin-explorer
- libbitcoin-node
- libbitcoin-protocol
- libbitcoin-server
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
- Amir Taaki (gengix)
- Robert Williamson (bobalot)
- Patrick Strateman (phantomcircuit)
- Denis Roio (jaromil)
- Luke Dashjr (luke-jr)
Projects Using Libbitcoin
See Also
- http://libbitcoin.org
- IRC Web #darkwallet
- https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libbitcoin
- https://bitcoinmagazine.com/6234/what-libbitcoin-and-sx-are-and-why-they-matter
- http://blog.coinkite.com/post/97397052686/public-obelisk-server-for-the-community
- http://www.slideshare.net/swansontec/libbitcoin-slides
- https://github.com/aantonop/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/appdx-bx.asciidoc
