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Hi all,

I'm designing my own payment processor so I don't need to rely upon BitPay or any of the others, and so I can do some things differently and more user friendly than what they do (e.g. mark as paid as soon as the TX hits the network whether or not it is in a block as long as the value is low or the customer is several times repeat)

Anyway after a lot of searching around, it appeared to me that libbitcoin was the best solution for a backend.

I've started creating RPM packages for it for CentOS 7 and I thought I would share them. Well, not the packages themselves, but the spec files that make it easy to build the packages from source.

https://github.com/AliceWonderMiscreations/libbitcoin-RPM

Note that I am *not* a libbitcoin developer.

Right now the spec files I wrote are for the 4.x development branch of libbitcoin that should not be used in production.

The stable 3.x branch isn't finished being tagged yet. The 2.x branch is, well, old. It's stable and works but is about to be replaced with 3.x

Anyway - hope they are of use to some people, libbitcoin looks like it can do so many things that are not easy to do with bitcoin-core. Not because it is better, but rather because the design goals are different. It was rather frustrating for example to find out there is no easy way to query bitcoin-core for the value associated with an address when it isn't in a wallet, bitcoin-core is very wallet oriented but the way I'm designing my payment system doesn't use the artificial construct of a wallet.

For the libbitcoin project itself (you can install it very easily without needing RPMs, I just like RPM) - https://github.com/libbitcoin