Hi, I have a project which I've been continuously working on for 1 year now since May 2011 ( http://gitorious.org/libbitcoin?page=17 ). It is used in a number of projects like Electrum ( http://ecdsa.org/electrum/ ) or as backend software for websites ( https://intersango.com/ ). Intersango is the largest exchange in the UK, and 2nd largest worldwide so libbitcoin is being used in a production environment.
It is a C++ Bitcoin library (rewrote from scratch) with an asynchronous toolkit based design. It has Python bindings and is at its 1.0 release. Website: http://libbitcoin.org/ Documentation/tutorials: http://libbitcoin.org/doc.html There are packages for Gentoo and Parabola/ArchLinux. I made a simple Ubuntu package: http://gitorious.org/libbitcoin/distpkg I then have been trying to create a Debian package to get it into the repos, however the entire process for creating shared library packages is immensely complex going by these guides: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html If anyone can make a package then contact me and I'll collaborate and make whatever changes are needed to get it to work with Debian. I did make an effort before asking for help, but I'm mostly familiar with upstream processes. --------------------------- Install instructions --------------------------- There is nothing unusual or funny about the setup. It is just a normal autotools build system with no special modifications or hacks. $ sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool libboost1.48-all-dev libdb++-dev libprotobuf-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev git $ git clone git://gitorious.org/libbitcoin/libbitcoin.git $ cd libbitcoin $ autoreconf -i $ ./configure --enable-bdb $ make $ sudo make install A pkg-config is provided: $ pkg-config --cflags --libs libbitcoin -std=gnu++0x -DBDB_ENABLED -I/home/genjix/usr/include -L/home/genjix/usr/lib -lbitcoin -lboost_thread -lboost_system -lboost_regex -lboost_filesystem -lpthread -lprotobuf -ldb_cxx -lcurl > Is it related to libcoin? https://github.com/ceptacle/libcoin Nope. libcoin is a fairly recent new project which simply refactors the existing Bitcoin-Qt codebase. libbitcoin is older and rewritten specifically as a library and for asynchronicity/scalability. It is the only full rewrite of the Bitcoin protocol right now. > Does it (unlike Bitcoin) work on bigendian architectures? Yes it works on big-endian architectures. Also Bitcoin-Qt is MIT licensed, whereas this is GPL. > I can help you, but am already involved in way too many packages[1] so > would prefer that you (or others) stay in the loop and participate in > the ongoing maintainance of the packaging. I'd be willing to help engage and maintain the package, and work with the author of the package. I've got to make the software accessible to developers (as it is a library) so I'll do my best to help the Debian developers. > Are you also considering packaging some of those projects that use this > library? Yes, eventually. I really like this project Electrum: http://ecdsa.org/electrum/ - I think it has massive potential in the future. Compared to other Bitcoin clients, there is no blockchain download and yet it remains secure. So it fixes the biggest usability problems existing currently with Bitcoin. However to get these projects working, the first step is to get their core dependencies out there. Electrum has mainstream appeal. Another cool project using libbitcoin is subvertx which is a handy set of command line tools for working with Bitcoin. The ImageMagick of Bitcoin. Things like create private keys, download the blockchain into an SQL database, construct transactions and dump them offline to stdout, read from pipe and send raw transaction dump to network, examine private keys for addresses, check balances against the blockchain, ... .etc all these low level advanced commands. However it's not a priority since the usage is pretty niche, but I have a personal bias for anything command line :) First step: libbitcoin. The license is AGPL with a lesser clause (I worked with Stallman and Aaron Williamson of the SFLC to create this license). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
