mshkhan81 / coinpunk

Open source, self-hosted DIY Bitcoin wallet service

NOTICE: Breaking change!

Coinpunk updated to the latest version of SJCL, which has fixed a bug that caused PBKDF2 hashes to be inconsistent from the standard.

This has been fixed, but it will not work with wallets created before this commit. Please be mindful of this when upgrading Coinpunk if you are already running it in production.

Run your own Bitcoin wallet service.

Coinpunk is a web application that allows anyone to run their own self-hosted Bitcoin wallet service that is accessible from your web browser anywhere in the world. It's free, open source, and you can install it on your server right now.

Why

Coinpunk is aimed at developers and sysadmins interested in running their own Bitcoin wallet service, or power users that want to run a web wallet on their own servers.

Highlights

The latest version is a major rewrite that uses hybrid-wallets: encryption is done in the browser via a client-side application, which can be run separately from the server. This makes it much harder for hackers to steal Bitcoins by breaking into servers.

Coinpunk is in beta. It is set to testnet by default, and it is recommended that only developers and testers only use it at this time (especially in production).

• Fast, lightweight, efficient
• Responsive design - works well on mobile devices
• Easily create new accounts
• Send and receive bitcoins
• Detailed reports on transactions
• Ability to create and name new receive addresses ("Website Donations", "Bake Sale", etc)
• Built with Node.js and HTML5
• Standards compliant, easy to upgrade - Uses bitcoind via the JSON RPC

Coming soon:

• Development API
• Receiving notifications when new bitcoins arrive
• Sending bitcoins to users using e-mail (users collect the payment by getting a link to register with your service)

Get Started

See the Install Guide, or the OSX Install Guide.

Coinpunk is for Advanced Users

If you've never worked on your own server before, and don't know how to do things like backup your database, I strongly recommend using a desktop client or hosted wallet provider like blockchain.info instead. Coinpunk tries to be simple as possible, but like Gitlab, it does require some understanding of system administration to be run properly.

Author

Kyle Drake. Illustration by Kyle Wilson.

Contributors

Click here to see the contributor list.

How You Can Help

Donations

Donations help me to keep working on Coinpunk and keep it free and open source, without having to worry about income. Any amount is really helpful! Thank you so much.

The Coinpunk donation Bitcoin address is 1MHbxLgsgFQyvWkW1qiZs1HaXxU4S4LuWH

Also if you are planning on running Coinpunk on a VPS, you can use this link to sign up for DigitalOcean and it gives us a referral bonus we can use to pay for the servers.

Again, thank you. ❤️

Contributing

Help us build! We're in beta right now and seeking help to find bugs. If you are interested in contributing, jump in! Anyone is welcome to send pull requests. Here's how you do it:

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Write the code, and tests to confirm it works
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create new Pull Request