An alternative implementation of the #Bitcoin protocol written in NodeJS. Full node, SPV node, BIP44 wallet and more. Used by @purseio and many others.
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t.me/bcoinorg
If your company or project uses bcoin, connect with us here to discuss future improvements and get all your questions answered!
It fills me with immense pride and satisfaction to look back upon SoB 2023. Thank you @Vasu40733027 and @themanavdesai for your invaluable additions to @Bcoin. Special thanks to @MatthewZipkin and @masterchief164 for their review, insight, discussion and general handsomeness!! 🧡
Announcing @theanmolsharma_ as the 2nd recruit into the team.
Anmol is a young shadowy supercoder from India who contributed to @Bcoin and is hugely motivated to churn deep technical educational content for aspiring young devs.
Stay tuned for his fiery #Bitcoin deep dives!!
We're also proud to share that this year, @theanmolsharma_ will don the mentor's hat and guide new student devs on open source development for @Bcoin .
The Summer of Bitcoin Experience - EP10
We speak with Ayush Anand, a 20-year old university student from Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India 🇮🇳 & a Summer of Bitcoin 2022 intern who contributed to @Bcoin .
🔗: youtu.be/KHtERKz6_2I
The Summer of Bitcoin Experience is co-sponsored by BOL2, more about them here: buildonl2.com
Join us next week for a conversation with Ayush Anand from Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India 🇮🇳 and Summer of Bitcoin 2022 intern who has contributed to @Bcoin
Merged PR from @ShaswatGupta9: Updated sync progress function.
During initial sync we estimated progress based on number of transactions left to process, instead of time.
github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin/p…
I wrote this text explaining how BIP47 works with an implementation using @Bcoin.
If you're new to BIP47, aka Reusable Payment Codes, it's a way of avoiding address reuse while still having a static address. Check the thread for a summary (1/7)
medium.com/@ottosch/how-bip4…
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If your company or project uses bcoin, connect with us here to discuss future improvements and get all your questions answered!
The Summer of Bitcoin Experience - EP1
We speak with Anmol Sharma, a 21-year old university student from India 🇮🇳 & a Summer of Bitcoin 2022 intern who contributed to Bcoin - a bitcoin implementation in Javascript.
🔗: youtu.be/lDm-YPzacxU
Every Bitcoin node implementation that was actively developed in 2022 ended up seeing sync performance improvements compared to my 2021 tests. You can read my full report at blog.lopp.net/2022-bitcoin-n…
There isn’t one single program or code that everyone runs, anyone can run their own code, as long as they agree to the consensus rules. The conversation is so cool 😎 and makes me want to play around with some of the other implementations!!