bitcoinknuts

A toy bitcoin node implemented in node.js

Roadmap

• Connect to peers
• Download genesis block
• Automatic peer management, peerdb
• IBD of headers
• IBD of blocks
• Verify blocks (All modern BIPs except taproot)
• Pruning (exponential backoff?)
• Taproot support (?)
• Build UTXO set
• Wallet functionality
• Integration with Symphonic3/nodeBTCbot
• Mempool/tx relay (?)

Scrapped ideas

• Detailed TX and script editing for the wallet, based on Symphonic3/bitcointechwiki
• Web UI with useful node management/stats
• Fully in-browser node using TOR Snowflake transport (I have decided that this is out of scope, node-Tor is not able to do what I wanted without heavy modification)