Description
Libbitcoin is a multipurpose C++ bitcoin library targeted towards high-end use, serving as an ideal backend for fast implementations like mobile apps, desktop clients, and server APIs. It emphasizes asynchronicity, speed, and availability. The library is designed for scalability, with each component having its own thread pool, allowing it to scale across CPU cores to meet the growing demands of the bitcoin network. It can be leveraged with various design patterns for different applications, including Javascript, Python, PHP, and Ruby.
The toolkit includes Libbitcoin Server, a full Bitcoin peer-to-peer node and high-performance blockchain query server that exposes a custom query TCP API based on the ZeroMQ networking stack. It supports security features like identity certificates and wire encryption via CurveZMQ and the Sodium cryptographic library. Accompanying the server is Libbitcoin Explorer (BX), a command-line tool with over 80 commands for interacting with Bitcoin, supporting both simple and advanced scenarios like stealth and multisig. The overall project aims to create an extendable, scalable, and configurable architecture to make Bitcoin highly pluggable and easy to interact with, providing a stable codebase for developers to build applications quickly.