bcoin VS bitcore

Compare bcoin vs bitcore and see what are their differences.

bcoin

Javascript bitcoin library for node.js and browsers (by bcoin-org)

bitcore

A full stack for bitcoin and blockchain-based applications (by bitpay)
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bcoin bitcore
6 17
2,952 4,765
1.0% 0.8%
6.2 9.6
3 months ago 5 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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bcoin

Posts with mentions or reviews of bcoin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-08.
  • What's your unpopular crypto opinion?
    2 projects | /r/CryptoCurrency | 8 Jul 2022
    You can just submit your changes to the Bitcoin core repo https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin or you can fork it and create your own version. You can even just use/change one of the alternative implementations: https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin
  • Bitcoin is the only coin the SEC Chair will call a commodity
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jun 2022
  • Sent BCH to BTC wallet.
    1 project | /r/PurseIO | 1 Dec 2021
    I'm not sure what you mean by "truly separate", but our hot wallets are indeed separate wallets, both running on top on bcoin.io
  • Who controls Bitcoin ?
    6 projects | /r/Bitcoin | 16 Nov 2021
    bcoin
  • Mako – a full Bitcoin implementation in C
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Nov 2021
    My first bitcoin reimplementation was written in node.js and called bcoin[1]. So this is my second time reimplementing the bitcoin protocol, albeit in a very different language.

    Bcoin was frequently used as a reference along with bitcoin core v0.8.0-v0.11.0 when I felt like double checking consensus functions (among other things).

    As an aside, I personally think bitcoin core v0.8.0 is the best version of core if you want to learn bitcoin from it. It's a lot more straightforward than later versions. I personally don't enjoy reading any version beyond v0.11.0.

    This is also the reason mako doesn't support taproot yet. That code is very new and isn't present in upstream bcoin. I could try to implement it from the BIPs alone, but I won't know what intricacies are present in the actual bitcoin core code until I actually read it.

    [1] https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin

  • Is there a way to run a bitcoin-core program without downloading the blockchain?
    2 projects | /r/Bitcoin | 26 Aug 2021
    Hey guys, Is there a way to run a bitcoin-core program (like https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin) without downloading the blockchain?

bitcore

Posts with mentions or reviews of bitcore. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bcoin and bitcore you can also consider the following projects:

mako - Bitcoin node written in C

BitcoinJS - A javascript Bitcoin library for node.js and browsers.

sigma-male-grindset-api

btcd - An alternative full node bitcoin implementation written in Go (golang)

rn-nodeify - hack to allow react-native projects to use node core modules, and npm modules that use them

StratisFullNode

libbitcoin-system - Bitcoin Cross-Platform C++ Development Toolkit

NBitcoin - Comprehensive Bitcoin library for the .NET framework.

litecore-lib - A pure and powerful JavaScript Litecoin library

Mako - THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL REPO - PLEASE SUBMIT PRs ETC AT: http://github.com/sqlalchemy/mako

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