Copernicus

Copernicus is an alternative implementation of the Bitcoin protocol , written in Golang .

Why we would choose to use Go ? This is because Go has the following advantages:

• Multi-platform compilation
• Simple deployment , ditect compilation to promote machine code
• High performance
• Built-in support for high concurrency
• GC
• Rich standard library
• Static type
• Type judgment
• For C support friendly
• From a project perspective , Go is a well-designed programming language , eg: Code Style , Tool Chain ...
• the code of Go is clean code
• ...

We are developing now , We expect more developers to join the development of Bitcoin , to contribute to the Bitcoin Community .

Quick Start

Read the Quick Start

Documentation

We put the document on the gitbook , we will continue to update the docs

Acknowledgments

• Thanks btcd for full node bitcoin implementation with Go ，For more details
• Thanks secp256k1-go for bindings to lib-secp256k1 for golang