Bitcrust is a full software suite for bitcoin in development. Currently the focus and progress is on bitcrust-db: a storage-engine which uses a novel approach to block-storage to provides a high performance, lock-free concurrent R/W access, and fully parallel block verification.

More information is available at bitcrust.org

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Bitcrust depends on libbitcoinconsensus which can be created by building bitcoin-core from source per its instructions.

After that you can build and test the bitcrust libraries with

cargo test

Bitcrust is planned to have the following components:

• bitcrust-db Bitcrust-db is the library component that verifies and stores blocks and transactions.
• bitcrust-net (planned) P2P bitcoin protocol implementation
• bitcrust-mapreduce (planned) A scriptable indexing framework
• bitcrust-monitor (planned) Terminal based query and monitoring tool
• bitcrust-node (planned)
• bitcrust-wallet (planned)

Help is very much wanted; if you have a fix or improvement, please submit a pull request.

Or contact the maintainer for suggestions on work to be done.