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WARNING

These binaries are provided for your convenience. We cannot and do not guarantee that they will not lose your money or compromise your privacy. You are free to inspect the source code and build it yourself. By downloading a binary copy of BX you accept all responsibility for its use and behavior.

Download

Each download is a single executable file.

OS	File	Bytes
	bx-linux-x64-mainnet	3,001,128
	bx-osx-x64-mainnet	4,168,852
	bx-windows-x64-icu-mainnet	3,796,480

Integrity Validation

Validate the integrity of the download by calculating a SHA-256 hash of the file and comparing the result to that in the signed message below. If you do not have a previously verified version of BX you can use any local or online hash computer to calculate the hash values.

bx-linux-x64-mainnet
6bb2d47c8d10badbca8468fd6f51101c2b98ecd4103d19bfc72ea3abe66ab0d1

bx-osx-x64-mainnet
9e578ab79de7100e3e607860998adaa641c39ab69d672f9ad5b6fa77998f30f8

bx-windows-x64-icu-mainnet.exe
e7ad781c48c7d2404008e20190bf414e5396927f546a4d9ba0ca76541009ac9c

Using BX to Calculate Hashes

With a previously-verified version of BX you can validate both the integrity of the download using the following commands.

$ bx base16-encode < bx-linux-x64-mainnet | bx sha256
6bb2d47c8d10badbca8468fd6f51101c2b98ecd4103d19bfc72ea3abe66ab0d1

$ bx base16-encode < bx-osx-x64-mainnet | bx sha256
9e578ab79de7100e3e607860998adaa641c39ab69d672f9ad5b6fa77998f30f8

$ bx base16-encode < bx-windows-x64-icu-mainnet.exe | bx sha256
e7ad781c48c7d2404008e20190bf414e5396927f546a4d9ba0ca76541009ac9c

Origin Validation

Validate the origin of the download by verifying the PGP signature on the message containing the hashes (above). The message was signed by evoskuil, which can be verified using the following public key. See also the MIT Public Key Server:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux)
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=xE34
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Testnet vs. Mainnet

BX depends on the libbitcoin toolkit, which currently requires recompilation for use with testnet. BX also provides configuration settings for testnet. Each build can self-identify as testnet vs. mainnet using the help command.

$ bx help

Usage: bx COMMAND [--help]

Version: 2.1.0 [mainnet]

Info: The bx commands are:

address-decode
address-embed
address-encode
...