It properly downloads, validates, and serves the block chain using the exact rules (including consensus bugs) for block acceptance as Bitcoin Core. We have taken great care to avoid btcd causing a fork to the block chain. It includes a full block validation testing framework which contains all of the 'official' block acceptance tests (and some additional ones) that is run on every pull request to help ensure it properly follows consensus. Also, it passes all of the JSON test data in the Bitcoin Core code. It also properly relays newly mined blocks, maintains a transaction pool, and relays individual transactions that have not yet made it into a block. It ensures all individual transactions admitted to the pool follow the rules required by the block chain and also includes more strict checks which filter transactions based on miner requirements ("standard" transactions).
Features
- btcd is an alternative full node bitcoin implementation
- Downloads, validates, and serves the block chain using the exact rules
- It also properly relays newly mined blocks
- One key difference between btcd and Bitcoin Core is that btcd does NOT include wallet functionality
- Supports Go 1.16 or newer
- btcd has several configuration options available to tweak how it runs
Project Samples
