In the past, developers had to install extra software like Electrum X or BitPay's Insight along with their full node. Not anymore! BCHD is single application that both validates blocks and serves index data.

Get up and running fast!

Developers running most full node implementations, such as Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin ABC, or Bitcoin Unlimited, have to install extra software that connects to their node, computes the required indexes, and serves the data via a public API. These servers often leave much to be desired.

They tend to be difficult to install, run, and keep running in a production environment. Further, the APIs exposed by these servers are not that great. Insight uses a REST API for some types of data but then requires the use of WebSockets and socket.io for others. Libbitcoin uses ZMQ which requires developers to import a large C dependency. Electrum servers use a clunky and cumbersome stratum API. And so on.

We want developers to start building as fast as possible. Now you simply download the BCHD binary and run it. That’s it!