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This wiki contains a list of Bitcoin Explorer (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.

About Bitcoin Explorer

BX is a fork 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.

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

3f152b0e3c5806bd9cd2f7c833acd061
a927f06ad73c139d7f912c06700bc8ee8060ab0e5507e8119ddf56ad3dbb9576
03255c8998fbf7d3820d4c6c73996467080750eeb51f050214b65d16da8cf2b8dc
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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 agreed 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.

The libbitcoin toolkit 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.