BTCSteroids

Bitcoin address balance checker on steroids.

         

Table of contents

• Quick start
• What's included
• Use Cases
• Thanks
• Copyright and license

Quick start

Building and running the Go executable.

• Make sure Go is installed, GOROOT & GOPATH path and all that good stuff is set.

• Use the go get command to install required packages. Syntax : go get package-import-path

• From the project directory or pointing to main.go run go build. Syntax go build -o /path/BTCSteroids/main_go.exe /path/BTCSteroids/main.go

• Check the specified output path for the built binary

• To run the built file, just run it from the command console, in this case main_go.exe

What's included

BTCSteroids/
├─── main.go
├─── README.md
+--- electrum/
|    ├── misc.go
|	 ├── network.go
|    └── server.go
|
+--- operations/  
|    ├── string_in_slice.go
|    └── unique_in_slice.go
|
+--- services/
|	 └── address_to_scripthash.go
| 
|
└─── steroids/
	 ├── bitcoinchain_com.go
	 ├── blockchain_info.go
	 ├── blockcypher_com.go
	 ├── blockonomics_co.go
	 ├── bloom_flayer.go
	 ├── electrum_x.go
	 ├── hammer.go
	 ├── sample_addresses.go
	 ├── smartbit_com.go
	 └── workers.go

This project includes some workers that use APIs, go-electrum to check the given addresses against nodes and a local checker using bloom filters. The Blockonomics worker needs an API Key. Add it/change in the file blockonomics_co.go. Another thing to note is that you may need to update node addresses in electrum_x.go

Use cases

This is a project I picked up while learning Go Programming and was inspired by this repo. Golang is fast and I have an interest in blockchain technologies.

• This program can be used to watch a list of addresses, check sample_addresses.go
• You can a worker that checks against local DB/TSV/CSV file of addresses with balance using bloom filters. Check bloom_flayer.go. To improve efficacy, we can further check the results with one of the other workers to weed out false-positives. As you can tell by now, this worker is more geared more towards "bitcoin-cracking" (I mean, it is pointless and inefficient to use this to check balances or watch bitcoin wallets)
• Both the above use cases can be chained with an address generator using worlists,random generation or whatever means, modifying the program so as to use stdin or read the addresses from a file.

NOTE: The local implementation used to serve the database of addresses with balances using bloom filters has been removed from this version

Attribution

Icons made by Freepik from Flaticon

Thanks

• https://github.com/ashishbhate/hammer
• https://github.com/Ismaestro/markdown-template
• https://github.com/checksum0/go-electrum
• https://gobyexample.com/waitgroups
• https://api.smartbit.com.au/v1/blockchain/address -> NOTE: defunct
• https://blockexplorer.com/api-ref
• https://www.blockchain.com/api/q
• https://www.blockcypher.com/dev/bitcoin/#rate-limits-and-tokens
• https://bitcoinchain.com/api#api_blockchain
• https://1209k.com/bitcoin-eye/ele.php -> NOTE: for getting electrum node addresses

Copyright and license

Code and documentation copyright 2021-2022 the authors. Code released under the MIT License.