Bitcoin Research Kit

The Bitcoin Research Kit is a suite of tools designed to parse, index, compute, serve and display data stored on a Bitcoin Core node.

In other words it's an alternative to Glassnode, mempool.space and esplora/electrs all in one package with a particular focus on the self-hosting experience.

The toolkit can be used in various ways to accommodate as many needs as possible.

• Website
  Anyone can go to kibo.money website which is the official instance and showcases very well what the suite is capable of
  Completely free including the API which is also auth-less
  Powered by BRK using the kibo.money front-end and all features enabled
• CLI
  Node runners can self-host their own instance using one simple command: cargo install brk
  For more information check out: brk_cli
• Crates
  Rust developers have a wide range crates available (which can be found below) for maximum flexibility

So whether you're an enthusiast, a researcher, a miner, an analyst, or just curious, there should be something for everyone !

Crates

• brk: Wrapper around all other brk-* crates
• brk_cli: A standalone command line interface to interact with the Bitcoin Research Kit
• brk_computer: A Bitcoin dataset computer, built on top of brk_indexer
• brk_core: The Core (Structs and Errors) of the Bitcoin Research Kit
• brk_exit: An exit blocker built on top of ctrlc
• brk_fetcher: A Bitcoin price fetcher
• brk_indexer: A Bitcoin Core indexer built on top of brk_parser
• brk_logger: A clean logger used in the Bitcoin Research Kit.
• brk_parser: A very fast Bitcoin Core block parser and iterator built on top of bitcoin-rust
• brk_query: A library that finds requested datasets.
• brk_server: A server that serves Bitcoin data and swappable front-ends, built on top of brk_indexer, brk_fetcher and brk_computer
• brk_vec: A very small, fast, efficient and simple storable Vec.

Acknowledgments

Deepest gratitude to the Open Sats public charity. Their grant — from December 2024 to the present — has been critical in sustaining this project.

Heartfelt thanks go out to every donor on Nostr and Geyser.fund whose support has ensured the availability of the kibō.money public instance.

Hosting as a service

Soon™

If you'd like to have your own instance hosted for you please contact hosting@bitcoinresearchkit.org.

• Separate dedicated servers using different ISPs and Cloudflare for maximum availability
• Optional *.bitcoinresearchkit.org, *.kibo.money and *.satonomics.xyz subdomains
• A very generous 2 * 1 GB/s API limit
• Direct contact and feature requests

Pricing: 0.01 BTC / month or 0.1 BTC / year

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Endpoints

If you running locally, you can replace https://kibo.money by http://localhost:3110

• /: Website
• /api: A JSON with all available datasets, with their respective id and endpoint, better viewed in a Firefox based browser
• /api/TIMESCALE-to-ID: TIMESCALE can be date or height, and ID is the id with _ replaced by -, let's take date-to-close (price at the end of each day) as an example
  • /api/date-to-close: current year's values in a json format
  • /api/date-to-close?chunk=2009: values from the year 2009 in a json format
  • /api/date-to-close?all=true: all values in a json format
  • You can also specify the extension to download a file, either .json or .csv to get the dataset in a CSV format; like so:
    • /api/date-to-close.csv
    • /api/date-to-close.csv?chunk=2009
    • /api/date-to-close.csv?all=true