Spaces on Bitcoin

Checkout releases for an immediately usable binary version of this software.

Work on Subspaces

Spaces is live on mainnet. Subspaces is live on testnet4, and development work is happening on the subspaces branch.

What does it do?

Spaces are sovereign Bitcoin identities. They leverage the existing infrastructure and security of Bitcoin without requiring a new blockchain or any modifications to Bitcoin itself learn more.

spaced is a tiny layer that connects to Bitcoin Core over RPC and scans transactions relevant to the protocol.

space-cli is a Bitcoin wallet that supports opening auctions, bidding and registering spaces.

Quick Start

Paste the following into your terminal to install the latest version of Spaces:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://install.spacesprotocol.org | sh

Documentation

Visit docs to learn how to get started.

Build from source

To build it from source:

git clone https://github.com/spacesprotocol/spaced && cd spaced
cargo install --path client --locked

Make sure it's in your path

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Verify installation

spaced --version
space-cli --version

Development setup on testnet4

Setup

First, download Bitcoin Core and set it up to connect to testnet4 using these steps:

mkdir $HOME/bitcoin-testnet4

# Create a configuration file with RPC credentials
echo "rpcuser=testnet4" > $HOME/bitcoin-testnet4/bitcoin.conf
echo "rpcpassword=testnet4" >> $HOME/bitcoin-testnet4/bitcoin.conf

# Start Bitcoin Core specifying testnet4 network
bitcoind -testnet4 -datadir=$HOME/bitcoin-testnet4

Next, run spaced with the following:

spaced --chain testnet4 --bitcoin-rpc-user testnet4 --bitcoin-rpc-password testnet4

Project Structure

License

Spaces is released under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.