api-dev/bitkey

A self-contained read-only CD/USB stick with everything you need to perform highly secure air-gapped Bitcoin transactions. Offline cold storage made (slightly more) practical.

In its current form BitKey is a swiss army knife of handy Bitcoin tools built on top of Debian, which we created because we wanted something like it for our own use case.

We're avid Bitcoin fans but after going to our first local Bitcoin meetup we discovered the elephant in the room was that there was no easy way to perform cold storage Bitcoin transactions where the wallet lives on an air-gapped system physically disconnected from the Internet.

The idea was to see if we could use the TurnKey GNU/Linux build system to create a self-contained read-only CD/USB stick with everything you need to perform highly secure air-gapped Bitcoin transactions.

Overview, features, download

See http://bitkey.io

Building from source

BitKey is built with TKLDev, the TurnKey GNU/Linux build system.

Reporting a bug, issue or feature request

The ideal bug/issue includes:

1. A detailed description of the issue.
2. How to reproduce the issue step by step.
3. Any extra information that might be relevant, such as your hardware, network card, boot media, any changes made prior to issue, etc.

The ideal feature request includes:

1. A detailed description of feature and component it relates to.
2. One or more use cases for the feature.
3. Any extra information that might be relevant.

Before creating a new issue on the Issue Tracker, please check to see if a similar issue already exists. If it does, post a comment showing it also affects you. Knowing an issue effects multiple users is useful when we decide how to prioritize limited development resources. Please try and include any additional information you think might help us close the issue.

Contributing as a developer

BitKey, like TurnKey, is 100% free software and the code for all components is right here on GitHub. Developers with good ideas are strongly encouraged to be bold and contribute code. Use the source Luke!

See the guidelines and walk through.