Here is a list of 5 popular Bitcoin APIs in the market, best rated for developers.
Bitcoin APIs are APIs that allow developers to interact with Bitcoin in particular - the most popular cryptocurrency in the world today.
These include various functions such as viewing wallet contents, tracking market prices or even sending and receiving transactions...
That has also made these APIs extremely useful with almost any project related to the Bitcoin cryptocurrency.
Nobody has reviewed quite a few Bitcoin APIs and rated them based on the following features:
- Wallet integration: Can they communicate with Bitcoin wallets?
- Transaction support: Can they send and retrieve Bitcoin transactions?
- Price: How much does it cost to use the different Bitcoin APIs?
- Special capabilities: What special capabilities do they have?
CoinAPI
CoinAPI is considered to be the perfect platform for getting the latest trading data on cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin in particular, as well as historical from all markets.
This is a REST API that allows developers to retrieve all cryptocurrency exchanges through a single API on RapidAPI.
| Wallet integration | Hasn't. |
| Transaction support | Hasn't, but offer the latest data on trade and all exchanges. |
| Price | CoinAPI is offering packages from free to $379, developers can choose to suit their usage needs. |
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Coinbase
Coinbase API makes interacting with Bitcoin simpler than ever.
This is one of the largest and most reputable digital wallet systems on the market today.
At the same time, Coinbase is also one of the most popular transaction processing platforms with developers.
| Wallet integration | Coinbase has a wallet integration service and impressive portfolio management options. The API reflects this with endpoints for retrieving account balances, listing orders received and even creating new users. |
| Transaction support | Coinbase offers strong transaction support with the ability to generate invoices, send Bitcoins, get prices for both buy and sell... |
| Price | Coinbase offers a completely free API with a limit of 10,000 requests per hour. |
| Special capabilities | Support:
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CoinMarketCap
CoinMarketCap is an extremely popular platform for tracking the market capitalization, unit price, recent volume, circulating supply, daily fluctuation... of over 1,600 different cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoins.
It can be commented, CoinMarketCap API offers developers a very simple and powerful connection.
| Wallet integration | Hasn't. |
| Transaction support | Hasn't, but offer information about current prices. |
| Price | Completely free. |
| Special capabilities | CoinMarketCap currently offers detailed analysis services, which are extremely useful when combined with various crypto APIs. While there are only three API endpoints available, they offer a lot of power:
With the first endpoint, the developer can configure the number of results to return. |
Bitcointy
This is an open source project that provides an accurate weighted average of the Bitcoin price.
Bitcointy is equipped with a variety of tools and uses different exchanges in the market to aggregate price data, as well as for its calculation.
| Wallet integration | Hasn't. |
| Transaction support | Hasn't. |
| Price | Bitcointy offers a free plan with a limit of 5,000 requests per month. And three more plans with different fees and maximum limits. In which, the highest priced package ($75/month) has no limit on the number of requests. |
| Special capabilities | Bitcointy API has the ability to track market rates quickly and accurately, with an update frequency of 01 second for the business plan and 15 seconds for the free use. Besides, Bitcointy also has a lot of endpoints with useful analytical functions:
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Nexchange
Nexchange is a popular platform for providing APIs to exchange cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and several other assets.
In addition, Nexchange allows users to access a large amount of market data.
| Wallet integration | There is a bare wallet integration, but serves little purpose other than allowing exchange and access services. |
| Transaction support | This is the main purpose of Nexchange, although trading focuses on the exchange of Blockchain pairs rather than cash for crypto. |
| Price | Nexchange charges a fee depending on the transaction. |
| Special capabilities | The API endpoint allows developers to easily exchange Blockchain pairs through application creation and receipt. Nexchange allows anyone to use its API to create completely different exchange services. |
