River Financial is launching an open-source Bitcoin library, Bitcoinex, in an effort to improve Bitcoin support in the Elixir language ecosystem.
At River Financial, we use Elixir to power our web application. Elixir is a functional language leveraging the Erlang VM designed for building scalable applications.
We love both Bitcoin and Elixir, so we are taking a step towards open sourcing our growing Bitcoin library Bitcoinex written in the language. Bitcoinex is striving to be the best and most up-to-date Bitcoin library for elixir. This is an ambitious goal and we are just getting started.
Today, we support the following functionality:
- Serialization and validation for Bech32 and Base58.
- Support for standard on-chain scripts (P2PKH..P2WPKH) and Bolt#11 Lightning Invoices.
- Transaction serialization.
- Minimal PSBT (BIP174) parsing.
View our code and follow our roadmap on GitHub.
Try our library on Hex.
We welcome contributions and comments on our GitHub
