Libbitcoin Common

The common libbitcoin library is a dependency of all others with the exception of libbitcoin-consensus. It was the first library created and originally contained the core functionality of all of the others.

Bitcoin Related Features

• Key formats (raw, BIP32, WIF, compressed/uncompressed, minikey)
• Encoding functions (base 2/10/16/58/64/85)
• Hash functions (ripemd160, sha1, sha256, sha512, hmac_sha256, hmac_sha512, pkcs5_pbkdf2_hmac_sha512)
• URL parsing (BIP21 and BIP72)
• Mnemonic functions (BIP39)
• All published mnemonic dictionaries
• Curve math, deterministic ECDSA, verification and encryption functions (based on libsecp256k1)
• Address functions (P2PKH and P2SH/BIP16),
• Stealth addresses functions for wallets and blockchain search
• Wire and text serializable type library (P2P protocol)
• Bitcoin script engine (see libbitcoin-consensus for more information)
• Asynchronous P2P networking stack built on ASIO

General Purpose Features

• Logging utilities
• Patricia Trie template optimized for binary search
• UTF8 Everywhere tools and integration for Windows
• Command line, configuration file and help processing utilities
• Uses C++11 advancements and restricts use of pointers and exceptions

Build and Quality Control

• Autotools builds for GCC/Clang
• All build artifacts generated by libbitcoin-build
• Extensive unit text matrix (based on Boost Test)
• Continuous integration builds via Travis-CI
• Visual Studio 2013 project and solution files
• Support for 32/64 bit processors and endianness differences

Dependencies

• boost
• libsecp256k1
• ICU (optional)

See Also

• Libbitcoin