diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b71ec76ae..0df35b5af 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Bitcore Node ============ -A Bitcoin full node for building applications and services with Node.js. A node is extensible and can be configured to run additional services. At the minimum a node has an interface to [Bitcoin Core with additional indexing](https://github.com/bitpay/bitcoin/tree/0.12-bitcore) for more advanced address queries. Additional services can be enabled to make a node more useful such as exposing new APIs, running a block explorer and wallet service. +A Bitcoin full node for building applications and services with Node.js. A node is extensible and can be configured to run additional services. At the minimum a node has an interface to [Bitcoin Core with additional indexing](https://github.com/bitpay/bitcoin/tree/0.12.1-bitcore) for more advanced address queries. Additional services can be enabled to make a node more useful such as exposing new APIs, running a block explorer and wallet service. ## Install @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ npm install -g bitcore-node bitcore-node start ``` -Note: For your convenience, we distribute bitcoind binaries for x86_64 Linux and x86_64 Mac OS X. Upon npm install, the binaries for your platform will be downloaded. For more detailed installation instructions, or if you want to compile the project yourself, then please see the Bitcore branch of [Bitcoin Core with additional indexing](https://github.com/bitpay/bitcoin/tree/0.12-bitcore). +Note: For your convenience, we distribute bitcoind binaries for x86_64 Linux and x86_64 Mac OS X. Upon npm install, the binaries for your platform will be downloaded. For more detailed installation instructions, or if you want to compile the project yourself, then please see the Bitcore branch of [Bitcoin Core with additional indexing](https://github.com/bitpay/bitcoin/tree/0.12.1-bitcore). ## Prerequisites @@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ This will create a directory with configuration files for your node and install There are several add-on services available to extend the functionality of Bitcore: -- [Insight API](https://github.com/bitpay/insight-api/tree/v0.3.0) -- [Insight UI](https://github.com/bitpay/insight/tree/v0.3.0) +- [Insight API](https://github.com/bitpay/insight-api) +- [Insight UI](https://github.com/bitpay/insight-ui) - [Bitcore Wallet Service](https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore-wallet-service) ## Documentation diff --git a/docs/services/bitcoind.md b/docs/services/bitcoind.md index 238a12bd9..99d0a1339 100644 --- a/docs/services/bitcoind.md +++ b/docs/services/bitcoind.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Bitcoin Service -The Bitcoin Service is a Node.js interface to [Bitcoin Core](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin) for querying information about the bitcoin block chain. It will manage starting and stopping `bitcoind` or connect to several running `bitcoind` processes. It uses a branch of a [branch of Bitcoin Core](https://github.com/bitpay/bitcoin/tree/0.12-bitcore) with additional indexes for querying information about addresses and blocks. Results are cached for performance and there are several additional API methods added for common queries. +The Bitcoin Service is a Node.js interface to [Bitcoin Core](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin) for querying information about the bitcoin block chain. It will manage starting and stopping `bitcoind` or connect to several running `bitcoind` processes. It uses a branch of a [branch of Bitcoin Core](https://github.com/bitpay/bitcoin/tree/0.12.1-bitcore) with additional indexes for querying information about addresses and blocks. Results are cached for performance and there are several additional API methods added for common queries. ## Configuration