Bitpeer is an experimental Bitcoin relay server. Its event-driven architecture makes it extremely fast, and it was designed to be very lightweight.
The target memory limit is 10MB for handling 1000 peers, plus 15 for the block indexes.
sendfile
support and a lot of caching)getaddr
coming soon)./bitpeer <listen_port> <public_ip[:port]> -n <seed_addr[:port]>
./bitpeer 8333 1.2.3.4 -n 5.6.7.8:8333
When building from git:
autoreconf -i
./configure
make
When building from a tarball:
./configure
make
The code currently only requires the libevent2
and openssl
libraries. Kernel support for IPv4 to IPv6 mapping is also required.