bit-connect

Description

This is a simple project to do a handshake with a bitcoin node using Go.

Features

• Simple project to connect to a bitcoin node.
• Connect to a local bitcoin node at default address 0.0.0.0:18444.
• To connect to a different address, use the flag --node-address
• By default, the project will use 76001 as the protocol version.
• By default, the project will connect to the regtest network.
• Only support connection handshake then disconnects.
• Only IPv4 addresses are supported.

Prerequisites

• Go version 1.22.1
• logging github.com/rs/zerolog v1.32.0
• commands github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.0

How to run

Run a bitcoin node

git clone https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd

make install 

btcd --regtest

Run the project

make connect 

or 

make build

./bin/bit-connect connect --node-address = "0.0.0.0:18444"