Welcome

Learn Bitcoin and start building Bitcoin-based applications.

Getting Started

The site aims to provide the information you need to understand Bitcoin and start building Bitcoin-based applications. To make the best use of this documentation, make sure you’re running a node.

For technical support, we recommend Bitcoin Stack Exchange. For errors or suggestions related to this documentation, please open an issue on GitHub.

Acknowledgments

This documentation would not be possible without the many contributions to the Bitcoin project over the years from core developers and other people. A very special thanks, however, goes to David Harding who in 2014 helped lead the effort to compose and bring together a significant amount of the material found here. Also, to Cornelius Schumacher for envisioning new ways to extend the developer documentation that led to this site.