bitcore-node-wyvern
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Full node with extended capabilities using Bitcore and Bitcoin Core (Wyvern fork)
A Bitcoin full node for building applications and services with Node.js. A node is extensible and can be configured to run additional services. At the minimum a node has an interface to Bitcoin Core with additional indexing for more advanced address queries. Additional services can be enabled to make a node more useful such as exposing new APIs, running a block explorer and wallet service.
npm install -g bitcore-node-wyvern
bitcore-node-wyvern start
Note: For your convenience, we distribute bitcoind binaries for x86_64 Linux and x86_64 Mac OS X. Upon npm install, the binaries for your platform will be downloaded. For more detailed installation instructions, or if you want to compile the project yourself, then please see the Bitcore branch of Bitcoin Core with additional indexing.
Bitcore includes a Command Line Interface (CLI) for managing, configuring and interfacing with your Bitcore Node.
bitcore-node-wyvern create -d <bitcoin-data-dir> mynode
cd mynode
bitcore-node-wyvern install <service>
bitcore-node-wyvern install https://github.com/yourname/helloworld
This will create a directory with configuration files for your node and install the necessary dependencies. For more information about (and developing) services, please see the Service Documentation.
There are several add-on services available to extend the functionality of Bitcore:
Please send pull requests for bug fixes, code optimization, and ideas for improvement. For more information on how to contribute, please refer to our CONTRIBUTING file.
Code released under the MIT license.
Copyright 2013-2015 BitPay, Inc.
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Full node with extended capabilities using Bitcore and Bitcoin Core (Wyvern fork)
We found that bitcore-node-wyvern demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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