The Revolution Will Not Be Centralized

Denovo is a stand alone bitcoin client written completely in C# and from scratch and with only one dependency for GUI. Using the latest .net core version with AvaloniaUI it can run on any operating systems.

• Development is not started yet.
• Current version 0.0.0.0 (check the versioning convention for more information).

The backbone of Denovo, Bitcoin.net is a stand alone bitcoin library written completely in C# and from scratch (no code translating) with no dependencies. It is released as a different project so that it could be used by any other third party projects.
Check out releases for the current version (versioning convention). The current implementation is covering almost the entire bitcoin protocol, there may be some missing parts or some bugs.
Please report any problems that you encounter or any feedback that you may have.

Using Package manager in Visual Studio:

Install-Package Autarkysoft.Bitcoin

Using .Net CLI:

dotnet add package Autarkysoft.Bitcoin

• Full xml documentation of the code explaining what each member does, expections that may be thrown, examples if needed,...
• Neatly categorized namespaces for ease of access: Blockchain, Cryptography, P2PNetwork are the 3 main ones and there are Encoders, ImprovementProposals covering the rest.
• Near 100% test coverage (for finished parts only, for now).
• Loosely coupled implementation of blocks, transactions and scripts making it easy to test and scale.
• Stand alone cryptography namespace making it possible to optimize functions for bitcoin (only some parts are currently optimized: Hashing and KeyDerivationFunctions namespaces)
  • Asymmetric: ECC (unoptimized and untested)
  • Hashing: SHA-1 (unoptimized), SHA-2 (256/512), HMAC-SHA (256/512), RIPEMD160, RIPEMD160 of SHA256 (aka Hash160) all optimized
  • KeyDerivationFunctions: PBKDF2, Scrypt both optimized
  • RFC-6979: Optimized. Also an extra entropy is added so that signer can grind to find low R values to a fixed length (<32).
• Implementation of improvement proposals, consensus related BIPs are part of the library and optional bips (eg. BIP-32) are in separate classes. Currently:
  • Mandatory: 11, 13, 16, 31, 34, 35, 65, 66, 68, 112, 130, 133, 141, 143, 144, 147, 173
  • Optional: 14, 21, 32, 38, 39 (also Electrum mnemonics), 137, 152, 178, 340

• Optimization of the libray
• Complete testing of remaining parts
• Add more relevant and useful BIPs
• Explore more ideas for a better Bitcoin (eg. block compressions and P2P protocol) to add under Experimental namespace.

Please check out conventions for information about coding styles, versioning, making pull requests, and more.