Bitcoin JSON-RPC

Have you been looking for a robust and easy to use way to interface with Bitcoin through the JSON-RPC API? We’ve got you covered!

We’re excited to announce btcrpcclient, a new Websocket-enabled Bitcoin JSON-RPC client package written in Go. This package allows you to quickly create robust Bitcoin RPC clients in just a few minutes.

Major Features of the btcrpcclient Package

• Supports Websockets (btcd and btcwallet) and HTTP POST mode (Bitcoin Core)
• Provides callback and registration functions for btcd and btcwallet notifications
• Supports btcd and btcwallet extensions
• Translates to and from high-level statically-typed Go types
• Offers a synchronous (blocking) and asynchronous (non-blocking) API
• When running in Websockets mode (the default):
  • Provides automatic reconnect handling (can be disabled if desired)
  • Outstanding commands are automatically reissued on reconnect
  • Registered notifications are automatically re-registered on reconnect
  • Back-off support on reconnect attempts

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