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Bitcoin Merchant's Toolbox

BTCToolbox.org

A Toolbox for Building Your Own Bitcoin Paywall

Mission: To provide a simple set of tools for programmers to use to build Bitcoin Paywalls

Table of Contents

[Toolbox] -- [getBTCAddress] -- [getBTCBalance] -- [getBTCInvoice] -- [getBTCRate] -- [getBTC.conf] -- [DevDocs]

Target Audience

• Merchants/Sellers/Vendors of products and services who want to add bitcoin as a method of invoice remittance for their operations.
• Programmers developing bitcoin payment gateways for use by Merchants/Sellers/Vendors of products and services.

The Toolbox

These are tools and code snippets that you can use to build your own Bitcoin paywall.

• getBTCAddress - Payment Address Derivation from an HD Wallet's exported, account-level, extended public key.
• getBTCRate - returns the current exchange rate for bitcoin
• getBTCPrice - returns the BTC amount for the desired dollar amount based on the current bitcoin exchange rate
• getBTCInvoice - returns a BIP-21 string that encodes payment information such as amounts, labels, and messages that may be included in the payers wallet.
• getBTCBalance - Checks the blockchain for the current balance of the payment address and number of confirmations.

Safe Test Vectors

• Safe test addresses may been obtained by using Ian Coleman's excellent BIP-39 Mnemonic Code Converter with this 12 word mnemonic:
  • abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon about
  • WARNING!!! - DO NOT SEND BITCOIN TO ADDRESSES CREATED FROM THIS BIP-39 MNEMONIC!!! YOU WILL LOSE YOUR BITCOIN!!!!!

Additional Helpful Resources:

• BIP's - Bitcoin Improvement Proposals are the concensus driven rules for programming bitcoin.

Contributors/Collaborators:

• Bob Holden
• Carson Mullins
• Kyle Honeycutt
• Jan Lindeman
• Peter N. Steinmetz

Kudo's and Acknowledgements

• Andreas M. Antonopoulos - Bitcoin Explainer Extraordinaire