This repository contains the historical bitcoin consensus Engine
exposed in an experimental standalone binary, i.e bitcoin-chainstate.This
is a fork of the libbitcoinkernel project from its 27.0 release tag,
with the bugs fixes in the build system to actually make it works.
This can be experimented with the following commands:
autogen.sh
configure --enable-reduce-exports --enable-experimental-util-chainstate \
--with-experimental-kernel-lib --enabled-shared
make src/bitcoin-chainstate
./src/bitcoin-chainstate
Usage: ./src/bitcoin-chainstate DATADIR
Display DATADIR information, and process hex-encoded blocks on standard input.
IMPORTANT: THIS EXECUTABLE IS EXPERIMENTAL, FOR TESTING ONLY, AND EXPECTED TO
BREAK IN FUTURE VERSIONS. DO NOT USE ON YOUR ACTUAL DATADIR.
For more information about the libbitcoinkernel project, see this blog article
This a very experimental project, so please do not use it in production to handle real bitcoin flows or real money.
This repository is for read-only and only for developers skilled in bitcoin engineering wishing to re-write a consensus-compatible full-node or another component of the bitcoin stack, in whatever language they wish (go, c++, haskell, python, etc), without precisly having to re-write a consensus engine, bug for bug, themselves. Skills in C / C++ is still strongly recommended.
This repository does not accept code contributions at the time. Issues and PRs will be closed without motivations.