yenom/BitcoinKit

Welcome to BitcoinKit

The BitcoinKit library is a Swift implementation of the Bitcoin protocol which support both BCH and BTC. Improving the mobile ecosystem for Bitcoin developers is our mission.

BitcoinKit allows maintaining a wallet, sending or receiving transactions without a full blockchain node. Following is a wallet app that demonstrates the way to use it.

Release notes are here.

Features

• Encoding/decoding addresses: base58, Cashaddr, P2PKH, P2SH, WIF format.
• Transaction building blocks: inputs, outputs, scripts.
• EC keys and signatures.
• BIP32, BIP44 hierarchical deterministic wallets.
• BIP39 implementation.
• SPV features are under construction. The following functions cannot work well sometimes.
  • Send/receive transactions.
  • See current balance in a wallet.

Requirements

• iOS 9.0+ / Mac OS X 10.11+ / tvOS 9.0+ / watchOS 2.0+
• Xcode 10.0+
• Swift 5.0+

Installation

CocoaPods

$ gem install cocoapods

CocoaPods 1.5.0+ is required to build BitcoinKit.

To integrate BitcoinKit into your Xcode project using CocoaPods, specify it in your Podfile:

source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
platform :ios, '13.0'
use_frameworks!

target '<Your Target Name>' do
    pod 'BitcoinKit', '~> 1.1.0'
end

Then, run the following command:

$ pod install

Carthage

Add this to Cartfile

github "yenom/BitcoinKit" ~> 1.1.0

Run carthage update to build the framework and drag the built BitcoinKit.framework into your Xcode project.

Swift Package Manager

Simply add the following lines to dependencies of your Package.swift:

.package(url: "https://github.com/yenom/BitcoinKit.git", .upToNextMinor(from: "1.1.0"))

Note that following data types and features are currently not supported on Linux platform.

• Peer and PeerGroup
• SQLite based BlockStore

Contribute

Contributions to BitcoinKit are welcome and encouraged! Feel free to open issues, drop us pull requests.

Authors & Maintainers

• usatie

About

BitcoinKit is maintained and funded by Yenom. Visit our website or say hi on twitter (@Yenom_wallet_en)

License

BitcoinKit is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.

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