Full stack Bitcoin software

Oct 25, 2026

Getting Started

Download BS Quick Start Configuration Settings Reference Platform Coverage Build Status Building Packages

Performance

Sync BS Footprint Computation Interfaces

Architecture

Overview System Database Network Node Server Explorer Build Test

Server

BS Interfaces Admin Console Native REST Electrum Sparrow Bitcoin P2P Bitcoind JSON-RPC Bitcoind REST Bitcoind ZMQ BTCD Esplora Stratum v1 Stratum v2

Client

Developers

Overview Contributing Style Guide Test Practices

View in context in the libbitcoin Slack #general mirror.

evoskuil20:38

bitcoin uses hashes to identify txs and numeric offsets to identify a tx's output. so an input that spends an output needs 36 bytes to point to it.