Coinbase Announces Toshi: The Open Source Bitcoin Node For Developers
BitPay isn't the only company having some fun with open source projects. San Francisco-based Coinbase announced Wednesday the launch of a new project called Toshi (most likely after Satoshi Nakamoto, bitcoin's creator). Toshi is an open source bitcoin node designed for developers. In short, the software makes it simpler for developers to build their web applications, and it's 100 percent compatible with Bitcoin Core. Or as Coinbase says, Toshi is an API to query blockchain data. It's written in Ruby, and it's using the PostgreSQL database. Developers will find that querying blockchain data....
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