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The Bitcoin Command Line Tool

About Bitcoin Explorer

BX is a major upgrade of the popular SX command line tool. Many of the commands and their parameters are identical to SX although many have changed, some have been obsoleted and others have been added.

Example

$ bx seed | bx ec-new | bx ec-to-public | bx ec-to-address
13ua8RRSxLpL5WL5cKUDepUCvJZgGWuKh7

Obsoleted commands include those overtaken by industry standards or by changes to other commands. Others were based on interaction with network services other than the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network or libbitcoin-server, making them redundant. Others were administrative interfaces to libbitcoin-server and it was decided that this scenario would be better handled independently.

Because of this significant interface change and out of a desire to provide consistent naming across repositories, the repository name of this fork is libbitcoin-explorer. Therefore the program is called Bitcoin Explorer and is referred to as BX as a convenience and out of respect for its ground-breaking predecessor.

This wiki contains a list of BX commands with examples (see menu on this page). The examples are drawn directly from BX test cases in the source code. See the BX readme for installation instructions and extensive developer documentation. If you encounter problems or have suggestions please use the BX issues board.

The libbitcoin toolkit on which BX depends is a set of cross platform C++ libraries for building bitcoin applications. The toolkit consists of several libraries, most of which depend on the foundational libbitcoin library.