README

This repository contains an implementation of Bitcoin using mostly pure PHP.

Warning: This library does not support 32-bit installations of PHP. Please also note that composer is the only supported installation method.

Installation

You can install this library via Composer: composer require barechain/bitcoin

Documentation

Check out the beginnings of the documentation for the library: [Introduction]

Presently supported:

• Blocks, headers, and merkle blocks and bloom filters
• P2SH & Segregated witness scripts
• An adaptable elliptic-curve library, using [PhpEcc] by default, or libsecp256k1 if the bindings are found
• Support for building, parsing, signing/validating transactions
• Deterministic signatures (RFC6979)
• BIP32 and electrum (older type I) deterministic key algorithms
• BIP39, and the older electrum seed format.
• ScriptFactory for common input/output types, parser, interpreter, and classifiers
• Supports bindings to libbitcoinconsensus
• Bindings to Stratum (electrum) servers