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February 07, 2021, 10:27:23 AM
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Hello, I am new to cryptocurrency development, and I have noticed that Bitcoin has an official wallet for both Desktop and Mobile (correct me if I am wrong).

My question is, does Bitcoin have an official explorer and value API (such as Bitcoin to fiat conversion) too? If not, are there services or APIs for developers that are recommended and widely used?
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February 07, 2021, 10:37:25 AM
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Hello, I am new to cryptocurrency development, and I have noticed that Bitcoin has an official wallet for both Desktop and Mobile (correct me if I am wrong).

My question is, does Bitcoin have an official explorer and value API (such as Bitcoin to fiat conversion) too? If not, are there services or APIs for developers that are recommended and widely used?


Bitcoin dosn't have an official explorer and API value. Also, there is no official Bitcoin price index either.
The Bitcoin network is an open source system and a decentralized currency. 

There are, however, a few reputable Bitcoin resources that you can use to estimate the real market price.

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February 07, 2021, 10:49:30 AM
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Hello, I am new to cryptocurrency development, and I have noticed that Bitcoin has an official wallet for both Desktop and Mobile (correct me if I am wrong).
There's no official client. You might be referring to Bitcoin Core which is considered the reference implementation with it's protocol rules in line with the consensus. There isn't any official mobile wallet as well.
My question is, does Bitcoin have an official explorer and value API (such as Bitcoin to fiat conversion) too? If not, are there services or APIs for developers that are recommended and widely used?
No. I'd say Blockchair has a nice API with the data dumps but for the conversion, it will vary across the various exchanges and you'll be better off getting the information from the exchange's API.

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February 07, 2021, 11:04:22 AM
Last edit: February 08, 2021, 06:48:03 PM by NotATether
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I wouldn't say that we have official clients because there's no central group who decides what the reference clients are, but we do have de facto clients that the community agrees on, such as Bitcoin Core and Electrum for desktop, Bitcoin Wallet for Android (along with an Electrum app), and at least two LN implementations - lnd and c-lightning.

Because Bitcoin is not a centralized organization, there is no reference explorer or price conversion tool. Third party commercial companies make explorers, and usually its exchanges who make price conversion tools, and of course there can't be an official bitcoin exchange.

Also, there can't really be an official price ticker; each exchange quotes slightly different prices as a result of slightly different buy/sell activity on each.

But Blockchair (as ranochigo previously mentioned) is held in high regard by this community, because it gives you the most details about transactions, addresses and blocks. More than any other explorer. Another explorer really popular is Walletexplorer. It additionally can link related address together and guess which addresses belong to the same wallet or service. Think of it as a free Chainalysis service (the founder was later hired by them).

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February 08, 2021, 03:25:59 PM
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If you are a developer you should learn more about how bitcoin works, because when you understand that all the explorers are connected to the same Blockchain, it means all of them are official. All of them will give the same data because they get the same information from the blockchain.

Bitcoin is decentralized that means it doesn't have an official explorer or wallet, anyone can make one.

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February 08, 2021, 05:18:18 PM
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There's no such official explorer or APIs for bitcoin. Bitcoin is decentralized and anybody is free to use it and build platforms for it.
You can use online block explorer like blockchain.info and there are many others as well. You can easily find out the one that suits you.

There are many platforms for APIs as well. Most of them provide the block explorer as well.

You can use one from blockcypher.
https://www.blockcypher.com/

or the one from blocksdk 
https://www.blocksdk.com/

or create your own API from nodejs and the bitcoin core
https://medium.com/@peterjd42/build-your-own-bitcoin-api-using-node-js-and-bitcoin-core-251e613623db

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February 08, 2021, 06:37:44 PM
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Bitcoin doesn't have an official wallet, explorer and value API but technically if we are to dive into the history of how Bitcoin core wallet creation and it functions when it comes to Bitcoin mining we can consider that Bitcoin official wallet which is what I believe the OP is trying to say when he said "Bitcoin has an official wallet for both Desktop and Mobile".
Having saud that, every Dev can create one since Bitcoin is decentralized in nature.

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