bitcoin-ruby VS btcutil

Compare bitcoin-ruby vs btcutil and see what are their differences.

bitcoin-ruby

bitcoin utils and protocol in ruby. (by lian)

btcutil

Provides bitcoin-specific convenience functions and types (by btcsuite)
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bitcoin-ruby btcutil
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916 473
- 1.1%
0.0 0.0
10 months ago 10 months ago
Ruby Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later ISC License
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bitcoin-ruby

Posts with mentions or reviews of bitcoin-ruby. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-21.

btcutil

Posts with mentions or reviews of btcutil. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-11.
  • You Don't Need UUID
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2023
    Your IDs are []byte of len=11. Those bytes can be represented in many ways.

    You can represent them as hex strings via encoding/hex.EncodeToString(id), or base64 strings via encoding/base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(id), or base32 strings via encoding/base32.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(id), or etc.

    Looks like the most used base58 package is https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/btcsuite/btcutil/base58, but looking at the implementation [0] I'm not impressed, and confident there's a better implementation

    [0] https://github.com/btcsuite/btcutil/blob/v1.0.2/base58/base5...

    But how you encode 11 bytes of data is kind of orthogonal to the important thing, which is that you have 11 bytes of data. They should be always be store in memory (in your application, or a DB, or anything else) as the actual 11 bytes of the ID, and not as a base58 or base64 or JSON or whatever other kind of string that can be decoded to the actual 11 bytes of data.

    Likewise, a UUID shouldn't be stored as a string like "64d3f2e0-a4dc-48d3-98ad-7f09eb3b082f", that's a specific encoding of the actual 16 UUID bytes, you should store, process, etc. those bytes directly.

  • Algorithm to get address?
    4 projects | /r/dogeducation | 21 Feb 2021
    Golang: https://github.com/btcsuite/btcutil

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bitcoin-ruby and btcutil you can also consider the following projects:

dogecoin - very currency

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

dxid - A better and safer way to display your primary keys in urls or in your app

nanoid - A tiny (124 bytes), secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript

bip39 - A web tool for converting BIP39 mnemonic codes