Valyrian Tech, a Bitcoin venture, announced the beta release of “The Bitcoin Spellbook” an open source set of tools designed to interact with Bitcoin’s Blockchain. Wouter Glorieux a 33-year-old programmer and creator of the Valyrian Tech project stated that his main goal is to create software that lets any group of individuals to form a decentralized company, where profits are shared fairly based on each one’s contribution.  

Wouter Glorieux is a 33-year-old programmer, with a bachelor’s degree in applied informatics, 8 years of experience as a System’s Administrador, and development experience of Enterprise Resource Planning systems. Glorieux has been obsessed with Bitcoin since 2011, he is one of the members of the Ghent Bitcoin City Project

, where he has been doing work as a Bitcoin evangelist, convincing merchants to accept Bitcoin as a payment option.

Glorieux main goal is to figure out new and unexpected ways to use Bitcoin’s technology, The Bitcoin Spellbook is a set of tools that uses Bitcoin’s blockchain as it is, using standard features that increase the library’s compatibility (covering most wallet solutions). The Bitcoin Spellbook (codename Project Meraxes) is a collection of Bitcoin APIs and webservices, they are the core tools that Glorieux will use to allow his future projects to talk with Bitcoin’s Blockchain.

The Spellbook is a collection of 5 spells (APIs) and 3 enchantments (webservices) that use the Bitcoin Blockchain along with some code relating to BIB44 Wallets. Some of the tools included are a data retriever which fetches data from multiple block-explorers, a tool that sorts the received transactions of a Bitcoin address into a list of address-value pairs, a voting mechanism, a service that automatically reveals a link, text or send email when an address received a certain amount of Bitcoins and more.

More details of the project will follow over the coming weeks, Glorieux has been financing this project on his own, however, he started a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo

to fund the development of the project. The milestone is set at 10,000 EUR over the coming month, Glorieux also has a Bitcoin donation address, which can be found at the bottom of the blog post.

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