BitcoinLib

.NET Bitcoin & Altcoins library

Features

• Fully compatible and up-to-date with Bitcoin Core 0.11.2 RPC API.
• Strongly-typed structures for complex RPC requests and responses.
• Implicit JSON casting for all RPC messages.
• Extended methods for every-day scenarios where the built-in methods fall short.
• Exposure of all RPC API's functionality as well as the extended methods through a single interface.
• Custom RPC exceptions.
• Supports all Bitcoin clones.
• Can operate on unlimited daemons with a single library reference.
• Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, SmartCash and Dash integrations included.
• Each coin instance can be fully parametrized at run-time and implement its own constants.
• Demo client included.
• Disconnected raw RPC connector included for quick'n'dirty debugging.
• Handles and relays RPC internal server errors along with their error code.
• Can work without a .config file.
• Fully compatible with Mono.
• Test Network (testnet) and Regression Test Mode (regtest) ready.
• Fully configurable.

Donations

This library took a significant amount of time and effort to build and requires continuous maintenance in order to keep up with changes introduced with every new Bitcoin-Core release. Keep it up by donating at: 15Nb3RhMd13zp5Pc7yngUon83nFtEZUyBA

Support

Premium Support is available by our team of experts for $350/h (min 1 hour) at: [email protected].

License

See LICENSE.

NuGet packages

BitcoinLib is available on NuGet:

• BitcoinLib

Versioning

From version 1.4.0, BitcoinLib follows Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.

Building from source

To build BitcoinLib from source, you will need either the .NET Core SDK or Visual Studio.

Linux-specific

If you are using Linux you will also need Mono installed (in order to run Paket). The full install sequence (for Ubuntu) will be something like this.

Building & running tests

With Visual Studio you can build BitcoinLib and run the tests from inside the IDE, otherwise with the dotnet command-line tool you can execute:

dotnet build src/BitcoinLib.sln

The first time you run it, this will use Paket to restore all the packages, and then build the code.

Instructions for Bitcoin

• Locate your bitcoin.conf file (in Windows it's under: %AppData%\Roaming\Bitcoin, if it's not there just go ahead and create it) and add these lines:

  rpcuser = MyRpcUsername
  rpcpassword = MyRpcPassword
  server=1
  txindex=1
  

• Edit the app.config file in the Console test client to best fit your needs. Make sure you also update the bitcoin.conf file when you alter the Bitcoin_RpcUsername and Bitcoin_RpcPassword parameters.

Instructions for Litecoin and other Bitcoin clones

• Perform the same steps as those mentioned above for Bitcoin.
• Litecoin configuration file is: litecoin.conf under: %AppData%\Roaming\Litecoin and its daemon is: litecoind.
• Each coin can be initialized by its own interface specification:
  • IBitcoinService BitcoinService = new BitcoinService();
  • ILitecoinService LitecoinService = new LitecoinService();
• Any bitcoin clone can be adopted without any further installation steps with the use of the generic ICryptocoinService:
  • ICryptocoinService cryptocoinService = new CryptocoinService("daemonUrl", "rpcUsername", "rpcPassword", "walletPassword");
• Use (ICryptocoinService).Parameters to fully configure each coin pointer at run-time.

Configuration

Sample configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <!-- BitcoinLib settings start -->

      <!-- Shared RPC settings start -->
      <add key="RpcRequestTimeoutInSeconds" value="10" />
      <!-- Shared RPC settings end -->

      <!-- Bitcoin settings start -->
      <add key="Bitcoin_DaemonUrl" value="http://localhost:8332" />
      <add key="Bitcoin_DaemonUrl_Testnet" value="http://localhost:18332" />
      <add key="Bitcoin_WalletPassword" value="MyWalletPassword" />
      <add key="Bitcoin_RpcUsername" value="MyRpcUsername" />
      <add key="Bitcoin_RpcPassword" value="MyRpcPassword" />
      <!-- Bitcoin settings end -->

    <!-- BitcoinLib settings end -->
  </appSettings>
</configuration>