Overview

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Bitcoin is a decentralized, proof-of-work Layer-1 blockchain that uses a UTXO model to secure peer-to-peer value transfer validated by miners and full nodes. Bitcoin’s native token is BTC . satoshis are the smallest unit of currency on the Bitcoin blockchain, there are 100 million satoshis in 1 Bitcoin, equally 1 satoshi = 0.00000001 BTC.

Network Support

Network	HTTPS	WSS
Mainnet - including Blockbook & Esplora Indexer support	✅	N/A
Testnet (Testnet3) - Blockbook & Esplora Indexer support	✅	N/A

Getting Started

Send a request to check that your endpoint works. Replace <YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> with the key from your endpoint in the Validation Cloud app.

curl https://mainnet.bitcoin.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
 -X POST \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -d '{
	"jsonrpc": "1.0",
	"id": "curltest",
	"method": "getblockcount",
	"params": []
}'

curl https://testnet.bitcoin.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
 -X POST \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -d '{
	"jsonrpc": "1.0",
	"id": "curltest",
	"method": "getblockcount",
	"params": []
}'

Compute Units

Method	Compute units
getbestblockhash	10
getblock	10
getblockchaininfo	10
getblockcount	10
getblockhash	10
getblockheader	10
getblockstats	10
getchaintips	10
getchaintxstats	10
getdifficulty	10
getmempoolancestors	10
getmempooldescendants	10
getmempoolinfo	10
getrawmempool	10
gettxout	10
gettxoutproof	10
gettxoutsetinfo	10
getmemoryinfo	10
getconnectioncount	10
decoderawtransaction	10
decodescript	10
getrawtransaction	10
sendrawtransaction	10
testmempoolaccept	10
estimatesmartfee	10
getindexinfo	10
validateaddress	10
verifymessage	10

All Blockbook & Esplora Indexer REST API methods are valued at 10 Compute Units.

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