A global database for people, companies, websites and more. Decentralized, privacy-centric, and blockchain-secured.
Learn more by visiting the Blockstack Website and checking out the in-depth articles and documentation:
- How Blockstack Works
- Blockstack vs. DNS
- Blockstack vs. Namecoin
- Blockstack Namespaces
- Blockstack Light Clients
The fastest way to get started with blockstack is with pip:
sudo pip install blockstack
If you encounter any problems during the pip install, see the detailed installation instructions.
First, start the Blockstack server and index the blockchain:
$ blockstack-server startNext, visit the basic usage docs and extended usage docs to learn how to register names of your own, as well as transfer them and associate data with them.
We welcome any small or big contributions! Please take a moment to review the guidelines for contributing to open source in order to make the contribution process easy and effective for everyone involved.
The Blockstack community is a group of blockchain developers coming together to define and develop a set of software protocols and tools to serve as a common backend for blockchain-powered decentralized applications.
For more information, visit the community website at Blockstack.org.
The code and documentation copyright are attributed to blockstack.org for the year of 2016.
This code is released under the GPL v3 license, and the docs are released under the Creative Commons license.