Purse Introduces BCoin: A Javascript-Based Bitcoin Library
“We just want to make Bitcoin great again,” Purse said about its latest announcement. “Bcoin,” the company says, is a solution to help it manage wallet infrastructure without creating a “menace to the [Bitcoin] network.” Purse’s Bcoin to Help Build Bitcoin Infrastructure. The startup’s first crypto-currency offering was in discounts for Amazon. To....
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Purse is best known as a peer-to-peer marketplace and gift card service where users can save money using Bitcoin through Amazon’s e-commerce platform. Now, the company is in the throes of a complementary project that has garnered the attention of entrepreneurs and developers throughout the Bitcoin community. Bcoin, as it is affectionately called, is a newly developed JavaScript library that offers a new way to connect to the Bitcoin network. While Bcoin is not the first library in the high-level programming language, it is the first to include full node capabilities. In Bcoin — as opposed....
Purse, an online marketplace that encourages bitcoin use and innovation, has introduced bcoin, a Javascript library to help bitcoin businesses build applications. Purse provides a full node implementation that allows it to utilize new additions to the bitcoin code base as they become available. Bcoin is consensus aware and is up to date with the latest BIPs, supporting Segregated Witness, versionbits, CSV, and compact block relay, according to Github. It also has preliminary support for BIP151 (peer-to-peer encryption), BIP150 (peer authentication), and BIP114 (MAST). It runs in node.js,....
BCoin is a fullnode bitcoin client which implements all the latest BIPs (BIP 150, 151, and more) and includes support for SegWit. Since bcoin is a fullnode it can process the entire blockchain just like bitcoincore and btcd. BCoin is implemented in pure javascript, and is browserify-able (this means compiling a binding to an ECDSA library is not even required for node.js). They have now begun integrating the Lightning Network. It’s tentatively called “blight” (bcoin Lightning) for now. Purse.io takes over this episode as both Christopher Jeffrey (JJ) who is the CTO & Engineer at Purse....
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Bitcoin shopping platform Purse.io just announced the release of its wallet code into open-source as well as a browser-based full node to improve platform security following the Bitfinex hack. Open-Source Wallet Code Released by Purse. Purse has added some new features to the platform such as a new tracking system, added packing/shipping data, and....