BITBOX has so far focused on giving you tools to build great $BCH apps. However once you have a working app you need cloud infrastructure to deploy, host and scale your app. You need an ecosytem of add-ons to take your app to the next level. For that there’s BITBOX Cloud. Today we’re rolling out part 1 of BITBOX Cloud—REST.

Modern architecture

Modern app architectures consist of a native or web client which a user interacts w/. That client sends HTTP requests to a cloud service which returns data that the client shows to the user.

REST give you access to 100% of the Bitcoin Cash RPC over HTTP. It speaks idiomatic REST and makes proper use of HTTP verbs.

From HTTP to JSON

When reading from the chain REST expects GET requests. When writing to the chain REST expects POST requests. All requests return JSON data from bitcoind .

REST GUI

In addition to interacting w/ REST over HTTP you can also use a GUI. This lets you quickly paste in values to see returned data before writing a script.

BITBOX Cloud

REST is just the first step in BITBOX Cloud which will be your “Blockchain as a Service” provider. BITBOX is committed to providing the hiqhest quality open source tools so developers can continue to change the world w/ Bitcoin Cash.