mikalv/reactive-bitcoin

A Scala/Akka bitcoin client implementation

reactive-bitcoin-node

Akka actor based bitcoin client.

Some of the API commands of the original Bitcoin client are supported. More are in progress.

The bitcoin node can be used in Java or Scala, or run through the command-line interface.

Usage

Create an instance of Bitcoin Node object with an actor system.

scala> import io.github.yzernik.reactivebitcoinnode.node._
scala> import akka.actor.ActorSystem
scala> implicit val sys = ActorSystem("sys")
scala> val node = new Node()

Optionally specify which network parameters to use.

scala> val node = new Node(TestNet3Params)

Commands

API commands are available as asynchronous methods on the node object.

For example,

scala> import scala.concurrent.Future
scala> val count: Future[Int] = node.getBlockCount

to get information about the current state of the blockchain.

or

scala> import io.github.yzernik.btcio.actors.BTC._
scala> val peers: Future[List[PeerInfo]] = node.getPeerInfo

to get info about the currently connected peers.

etc.

About

bitcoin-scodec is used for encoding/decoding of network peer messages.