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Lunarblock

Bitcoin full node in Lua for LuaJIT

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About

A Bitcoin full node in Lua targeting LuaJIT 2.1 for high performance, proving that even scripting languages can handle consensus.

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Mainnet sync

Initial Block Download
45.9%
Block height
434,000
Sync rate
~1,700 blk/hr
ETA to tip
~300 hours
Test vectors
1222/1222

Tech stack

Language
Lua
Storage
RocksDB
Crypto
libsecp256k1 (C FFI)
Lines of code
38,274

Quick start

terminal
$ git clone https://github.com/hashhog/lunarblock.git
$ cd lunarblock
$ luajit src/main.lua --network=mainnet

Features

✓ Wire serialization
✓ Cryptographic primitives
✓ Script interpreter
✓ P2P networking
✓ Block validation
✓ UTXO set management
✓ Header sync
✓ Block sync (IBD)
✓ Mempool
✓ RPC server
✓ Wallet
✓ Mining/block templates
✓ Script test vectors (1222/1222)
✓ Testnet4 sync
✓ Mainnet sync
✓ BIP324 v2 transport