Bitcoin Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples
∟Bitcoin Blockchain APIs
This chapter introduces Bitcoin Blockchain APIs.
Introduction of chain.so API
chain.so API - Get Block Data
chain.so API - Get Transaction Data
chain.so API - Get Address Data
Introduction of blockchain.com API
Introduction of blockexplorer.com API
Takeaways:
- chain.so (SoChain) API is a public API that allows you
access Bitcoin blocks, transactions and addresses.
- GET https://chain.so/api/v2/get_block/BTC/{block_index}
returns detail data for a given block.
- GET https://chain.so/api/v2/get_tx/BTC/{tx_id}
returns detailed information about a given transaction.
- GET https://chain.so/api/v2/get_address_balance/BTC/{addr_id}
- Returns basic balance details for a given address.
- blockchain.com API is mainly for registered users to
manage their wallets and trading orders.
- blockexplorer.com API was a REST API Bitcoin blockchain to
access Bitcoin blocks, transactions and addresses.
Table of Contents
About This Book
Introduction of Bitcoin
Bitcoin Blockchain
Bitcoin Wallet
Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin Transaction
Bitcoin-Qt - Bitcoin Core GUI
Bitcoin Mining
Bitcoin Consensus Rules
Bitcoin Block Data Structure
Bitcoin Transaction Data Structure
►Bitcoin Blockchain APIs
Copay - Bitcoin Wallet
Archived Tutorials
References
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