A Gentle Introduction to Bitcoin Core Development

Grokking Bitcoin - An in-depth technical book with rich illustrations.

Elliptic Curve Cryptography A Gentle Introduction.

Bitcoin Programming with BitcoinJS and Bitcoin Core CLI.

Bitcoin Protocol Development Curriculum - Chaincode Labs.

Lightning Network Protocol Development Curriculum - Chaincode Labs.

btcinformation.org / Developer Documentation - Find useful resources, guides and reference material for developers.

Nigiri - CLI to quickly fire up a a Bitcoin regtest box along with Electrs and Esplora. Includes faucet and push commands.

Nigiri in Travis - Travis template for adding Nigiri to your Travis (or Github Action) pipeline.

hal - Bitcoin CLI swiss-army-knife (based on rust-bitcoin).

BitKey - Live USB for airgapped transactions and Bitcoin swiss army knife.

Pycoin - Python-based Bitcoin and alt-coin utility library.

txwatcher - A little Python utility that lets you monitor Bitcoin addresses through Blockchain Websocket API and perform custom callbacks.

hellobitcoin - A collection of simple programs which can generate bitcoin wallets, create and sign transactions, and send transactions over the bitcoin network.

HD Wallet Scanner - Find all used addresses in your Bitcoin HD wallets bypassing gap limits.

LibreSelery - Automated Bitcoin distribution to your project contributors and dependencies integrated into GitHub Actions. 

Bitcoin-ruby-node - bitcoin node based on bitcoin-ruby-blockchain.

Fullnode - Javascript implementation of bitcoin.

Bitcore Node - bitcoind linked to node.js by BitPay.

Bitcore - Formerly just a Nodejs library, now a full node.

Bitcoin IDE - Bitcoin Script for dummies.

blockchain-demo - A web-based demonstration of blockchain concepts.

Bitcoin Script Debugger - Visualize Bitcoin script execution for real transactions.

Bitauth IDE – An interactive development environment for Bitcoin contracts.

NBitcoin - Comprehensive Bitcoin library for the .NET framework.

BitcoinLib - The most complete, up-to-date, battle-tested .net Library and RPC Wrapper for Bitcoin and Altcoins in C#.

QBitNinja - An Open Source and powerful blockchain API.

CoinMetrics.io JSON REST API (free as well as paid) with access to market data. Also CSV data file download available.

Messari.io JSON REST API (free as well as paid) with access to market data, news, metrics, profile, etc. 

WebBTC - These are postgres database dumps of the bitcoin-ruby-blockchain database generated by webbtc.com.

BitcoinDatabaseGenerator - A high performance data transfer tool that can be used to copy data from Bitcoin Core blockchain files to a SQL Server database.

Blockparser+SQL - Fast, quick and dirty bitcoin blockchain parser.

BitcoinABE - Abe: block browser for Bitcoin and similar currencies.

NBitcoin.Indexer - Scalable and fault-tolerant block chain indexer for Azure cloud platform.

Blockchain2Graph - Graph Database Builder.

Chaingraph – A multi-node blockchain indexer and GraphQL API.

btctxstore - Simple library to store/retrieve information in bitcoin transactions using OP_RETURN.

pybitcointools - Python library for Bitcoin signatures and transactions from Vitalik Buterin. Project discontinued.

pycoin - Python library for Bitcoin keys, signatures, transactions. Includes full VM implementation and tools for manipulating keys (ku) and transactions (tx).

bitcoin_tools - Python library for building and analyzing transactions and scripts (both standard and custom). Comes along with a UTXO set analysis tool. Includes several examples and exhaustive documentation.

oogway - A secure Bitcoin utility library for Python.

Blockstream.info - Blockchain explorer with API (mainnet, testnet and Liquid).

bcoin - Javascript bitcoin library for node.js and browsers.

Libauth – A lightweight, zero-dependency, JavaScript/TypeScript bitcoin library.

@lopp / Bitcoin Developers - Software developers who have experience working on Bitcoin implementations or applications.

@lopp / Lightning Developers - Software developers with experience working on LN implementations / applications.

A brief history of Bitcoin development…

bitcoin-resources.com Meta-list of Bitcoin resources, from books, articles, to podcasts.

Jameson Lopp Bitcoin Resource List Very detailed curated Bitcoin resource list and meta-list by J. Lopp

Esplora - Self-hosted blockchain explorer.

Cashier-BTC - Self-hosted payment gateway.

Chainradar API - Blockchain Explorer API for Chainradar.

One-Time Address A better way to share your Bitcoin address.

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