rosetta-bitcoin

README

Rosetta Bitcoin

ROSETTA-BITCOIN IS CONSIDERED ALPHA SOFTWARE. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! COINBASE ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY IF THERE IS A BUG IN THIS IMPLEMENTATION.

Overview

rosetta-bitcoin provides a reference implementation of the Rosetta API for Bitcoin in Golang. If you haven't heard of the Rosetta API, you can find more information here.

Features

• Rosetta API implementation (both Data API and Construction API)
• UTXO cache for all accounts (accessible using the Rosetta /account/balance API)
• Stateless, offline, curve-based transaction construction from any SegWit-Bech32 Address

System Requirements

rosetta-bitcoin has been tested on an AWS c5.2xlarge instance. This instance type has 8 vCPU and 16 GB of RAM.

Network Settings

To increase the load rosetta-bitcoin can handle, it is recommended to tune your OS settings to allow for more connections. On a linux-based OS, you can run the following commands (source):

sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1
sysctl -w net.core.rmem_max=16777216
sysctl -w net.core.wmem_max=16777216
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=10000
sysctl -w net.core.somaxconn=10000
sysctl -p (when done)

We have not tested rosetta-bitcoin with net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle and do not recommend enabling it.

You should also modify your open file settings to 100000. This can be done on a linux-based OS with the command: ulimit -n 100000.

Memory-Mapped Files

rosetta-bitcoin uses memory-mapped files to persist data in the indexer. As a result, you must run rosetta-bitcoin on a 64-bit architecture (the virtual address space easily exceeds 100s of GBs).

If you receive a kernel OOM, you may need to increase the allocated size of swap space on your OS. There is a great tutorial for how to do this on Linux here.

Usage

As specified in the Rosetta API Principles, all Rosetta implementations must be deployable via Docker and support running via either an online or offline mode.

YOU MUST INSTALL DOCKER FOR THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS TO WORK. YOU CAN DOWNLOAD DOCKER HERE.

Install

Running the following commands will create a Docker image called rosetta-bitcoin:latest.

From GitHub

To download the pre-built Docker image from the latest release, run:

curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coinbase/rosetta-bitcoin/master/install.sh | sh -s

Do not try to install rosetta-bitcoin using GitHub Packages!

From Source

After cloning this repository, run:

make build-local

Run

Running the following commands will start a Docker container in detached mode with a data directory at <working directory>/bitcoin-data and the Rosetta API accessible at port 8080.

Mainnet:Online

docker run -d --rm --ulimit "nofile=100000:100000" -v "$(pwd)/bitcoin-data:/data" -e "MODE=ONLINE" -e "NETWORK=MAINNET" -e "PORT=8080" -p 8080:8080 -p 8333:8333 rosetta-bitcoin:latest

If you cloned the repository, you can run make run-mainnet-online.

Mainnet:Offline

docker run -d --rm -e "MODE=OFFLINE" -e "NETWORK=MAINNET" -e "PORT=8081" -p 8081:8081 rosetta-bitcoin:latest

If you cloned the repository, you can run make run-mainnet-offline.

Testnet:Online

docker run -d --rm --ulimit "nofile=100000:100000" -v "$(pwd)/bitcoin-data:/data" -e "MODE=ONLINE" -e "NETWORK=TESTNET" -e "PORT=8080" -p 8080:8080 -p 18333:18333 rosetta-bitcoin:latest

If you cloned the repository, you can run make run-testnet-online.

Testnet:Offline

docker run -d --rm -e "MODE=OFFLINE" -e "NETWORK=TESTNET" -e "PORT=8081" -p 8081:8081 rosetta-bitcoin:latest

If you cloned the repository, you can run make run-testnet-offline.

Architecture

rosetta-bitcoin uses the syncer, storage, parser, and server package from rosetta-sdk-go instead of a new Bitcoin-specific implementation of packages of similar functionality. Below you can find a high-level overview of how everything fits together:

Optimizations

• Automatically prune bitcoind while indexing blocks
• Reduce sync time with concurrent block indexing
• Use Zstandard compression to reduce the size of data stored on disk without needing to write a manual byte-level encoding

Concurrent Block Syncing

To speed up indexing, rosetta-bitcoin uses concurrent block processing with a "wait free" design (using the channels function instead of the sleep function to signal which threads are unblocked). This allows rosetta-bitcoin to fetch multiple inputs from disk while it waits for inputs that appeared in recently processed blocks to save to disk.

Testing with rosetta-cli

To validate rosetta-bitcoin, install rosetta-cli and run one of the following commands:

• rosetta-cli check:data --configuration-file rosetta-cli-conf/testnet/config.json - This command validates that the Data API information in the testnet network is correct. It also ensures that the implementation does not miss any balance-changing operations.
• rosetta-cli check:construction --configuration-file rosetta-cli-conf/testnet/config.json - This command validates the blockchain’s construction, signing, and broadcasting.
• rosetta-cli check:data --configuration-file rosetta-cli-conf/mainnet/config.json - This command validates that the Data API information in the mainnet network is correct. It also ensures that the implementation does not miss any balance-changing operations.

Issues

Interested in helping fix issues in this repository? You can find to-dos in the Issues section with the help wanted tag. Be sure to reach out on our community before you tackle anything on this list.

Development

• make deps to install dependencies
• make test to run tests
• make lint to lint the source code
• make salus to check for security concerns
• make build-local to build a Docker image from the local context
• make coverage-local to generate a coverage report

License

This project is available open source under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License.

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