README.md

Coin.jl

A (self-educational, incomplete, and likely incorrect) library for working with Bitcoin written in Julia.

To Do

• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_Bitcoin_addresses
• TODO: multiple inputs
• TODO: convenience functions
• TODO: clean up and documentation
• TODO: update versioning info automatically (e.g., useragent, changelog, etc)

Wallet

First, we're going to implement a thin-client wallet.

• Should consider creating object types (e.g., addresses with metadata; wallets; etc)

• Clean up tests to make more consistent

• Different nets (e.g., https://github.com/haskoin/haskoin/blob/master/prodnet/Network/Haskoin/Constants.hs)

• DER: https://bitcointa.lk/threads/quick-question-on-der-encoding-of-signature-pair-r-s.329293/#post-7058009

• ECDSA signing: https://bitcointa.lk/threads/quick-question-on-der-encoding-of-signature-pair-r-s.329293/#post-7023595

• Why der: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/14415/why-use-der-encoding-for-signatures

Public key distribution

• See ref

Signing program

• See ref

Network operations

• TBD

Utilities

• TBD

Vault and multisig

• https://github.com/ciphrex/CoinVault
• BIP 32 HD Wallets ref

Mining

• https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer

Reference

• Bitcoin: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
• Bitcoinj: https://github.com/bitcoinj/bitcoinj
• Toshi: https://github.com/coinbase/toshi
• Bitcoin-ruby: https://github.com/lian/bitcoin-ruby
• Bitcoinjs: https://github.com/bitcoinjs/bitcoinjs-lib
• Protocol: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification

Articles

• Developer guide
• Developer reference
• Develoepr examples
• http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-raw-bitcoin.html
• http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoin-mining-hard-way-algorithms.html

Eventually

• Dockerize
• TheBlueMatt tests
• Add to Julia pkg repo and get badge
• Split off Crypto package
• Write Struct (a la Python's struct module) package?