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Helping Us Make Bitcoin More Useful — Plus, New Advanced Guides for Devs!
Recently, we announced all the new resources we’ve been coming out with to help make bcoin more accessible to both new and seasoned Bitcoin and Blockchain developers. The highlights included new guides for getting started with bcoin, as well as a much more robust API documentation on our bcoin.io website.
Well, we’ve been hard at work to continue making it as easy as possible to work with the one of the most advanced Bitcoin implementations out there!
(If you’ve got an idea for a guide, scroll down to learn how you can contribute)
What’s New?
Beginner’s Guide
If you’re just getting started with bcoin and aren’t sure how to set things up, you’ll love the Beginner’s Guide. This guide goes through how to get started with bcoin including installation, configuration, even using API keys and connecting over Tor!
Advanced Guides — Working with Multisig and a Crowdfunding App
We’ve also added our first advanced guides that we think you’ll really love. These start to get into the more complex things you can do with Bitcoin.
The first is a guide on how to work with Multisig transactions. Here you’ll not only learn about what a multisig transaction is and how it works but you’ll really get into the nuts and bolts, learning how to create a transaction with tools built into bcoin as well as how to use bcoin’s wallet management database and API. See the full guide here.
Our other advanced guide is originally inspired from an idea from Andreas Antonopoulos’ fantastic resource Mastering Bitcoin. Using tools completely native to Bitcoin you can build a transaction that allows for an undetermined number of funders while at the same time lock in a fixed output. The use case for this brought up in Mastering Bitcoin is for a crowdfunding transaction where you tell users how much you’d like to raise and people can contribute until that amount has been reached.
Learn how this works and all about the SIGHASH flags that are used to build it in our guide: Create a Crowdfunding Transaction.
Write Your Own Guide and Earn Some Money!
Finally, we’re very excited to announce that we’re opening up the floor to the community to help build our growing pool of Bitcoin developer resources.
If you’ve got an idea for a guide or there’s something you’ve been curious how to do, head on over to the GitHub issues and post your idea. Then, keep an eye out for the bounty tags on issues posted in the repo. For the ones that seem like they’ll be most useful to the community, we’ll be posting bounties via bountysource.com. Anyone that submits a PR with a guide for one of these issues can then earn that bounty. You can even contribute to the bounty yourself if you think it’s something really useful!
Read more about the contribution guidelines over on GitHub: https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin-org.github.io
For the full list of available guides, including working with scripts and storing data on the blockchain, head on over to our website and check them all out!
