bpd: Bitcoin protocol daemon written in Rust

bpd replaces Bitcoin Core in parts of its outdated JSON API and different indexing servers (like Electrum) for efficient and extended queries against bitcoin blockchain (see the drawing below).

The daemon is made with focus on:

• non-blocking/async IO and APIs
• ZMQ APIs for the clients
• efficient indexing with LNPBP-5 standard
• native miniscript support
• arbitrary complex queries against bitcoin transactions and their parts
• layer 2/3 protocols in mind
• native support for the new rust Lightning network node lnp-node

The repository also contains a tool for building initial blockchain index.

NB: This is (not yet) a full validating node!

Installation

You need to install nightly rust version and have PostgreSQL with default access settings

rustup install nightly
rustup default nightly
git clone https://github.com/LNP-BP/bp-node
cd bp-node
./setup.sh
cargo build

Usage

Assuming your bitcoin core directory is /var/lib/bitcoin you may simply run

./target/debug/bp-index -v -v -v -v

otherwise you may provide custom location & database settings with specific flags.