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# Bcoin
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**Bcoin** is an alternative implementation of the bitcoin protocol, written in
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node.js.
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Although still in a beta state, bcoin is well tested and aware of all known
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consensus rules. It is currently used in production as the consensus backend
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and wallet system for [purse.io][purse].
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## Uses
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- Full Node
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- SPV Node
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- Wallet Backend (bip44 derivation)
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- Mining Backend (getblocktemplate support)
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- Layer 2 Backend (lightning)
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- General Purpose Bitcoin Library
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Try it in the browser: http://bcoin.io/browser.html
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## Install
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```
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$ git clone git://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin.git
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$ cd bcoin
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$ npm install
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$ ./bin/bcoin
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```
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See the [Beginner's Guide][guide] for more in-depth installation instructions.
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## Documentation
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- API Docs: http://bcoin.io/docs/
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- REST Docs: https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin/wiki/REST-&-RPC-API
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- Wiki: https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin/wiki
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## Support
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Join us on [freenode][freenode] in the [#bcoin][irc] channel.
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## Disclaimer
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Bcoin does not guarantee you against theft or lost funds due to bugs, mishaps,
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or your own incompetence. You and you alone are responsible for securing your
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money.
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## Contribution and License Agreement
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If you contribute code to this project, you are implicitly allowing your code
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to be distributed under the MIT license. You are also implicitly verifying that
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all code is your original work. `</legalese>`
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## License
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- Copyright (c) 2014-2015, Fedor Indutny (MIT License).
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- Copyright (c) 2014-2017, Christopher Jeffrey (MIT License).
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See LICENSE for more info.
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[purse]: https://purse.io
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[guide]: https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin/wiki/Beginner's-Guide
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[freenode]: https://freenode.net/
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[irc]: irc://irc.freenode.net/bcoin
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