BitPay Announces Large-Scale Improvements to Bitcore, the JavaScript API

BitPay just announced major improvements to Bitcore, the new API for developing Bitcoin projects in JavaScript. The changes boil down to a cleaner and easier-to-use library for developers.
Although Bitcore 0.8 is composed of several changes, BitPay highlighted three new features in the announcement. They tested the API, so 100% of bitcoind’s test vectors are now ‘ported and passing.’ They replaced theTransactionBuilder class with the Transaction class, which makes transaction handling easier. They also unveiled in-browser support for the Payment Protocol, which facilitates communication and payment between merchant and consumer, and wards off insidious man-in-the-middle attacks.
The full list of tweaks can be viewed in the 0.8 changelog.
So what can developers do with the API? The API allows them to build JavaScript applications to handle transactions, secure payments, and develop programs over the network more easily. In fact, BitPay uses the API itself, and also uses it for Copay, the merchant processor’s multi-signature wallet.

This post was published at Coin Telegraph on 2014-12-24.