BurritoCoin Spec

Network Identity

Mainnet parameters baked into the daemon. None are secret; they're all visible on any running node.

Address Formats

BurritoCoin supports the same address types as Litecoin/Bitcoin Core, with BurritoCoin-specific version bytes and HRPs. Wallets generate bech32 (P2WPKH) by default; legacy formats are accepted for backwards compatibility.

Testnet & Regtest

For integration testing without spending real BRTO. Both networks use the same consensus rules as mainnet but with separate genesis blocks, address spaces, and ports.

RPC Interface

BurritoCoin Core exposes the same JSON-RPC interface as Bitcoin Core / Litecoin Core. All standard wallet, blockchain, and network RPCs are available. Run burritocoin-cli help against a running node for the full list.

Connecting

curl --user <rpcuser>:<rpcpassword> \
     --data '{"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"x","method":"getblockchaininfo","params":[]}' \
     -H 'content-type: text/plain;' \
     http://<node>:9226/

Common reads

# Chain status
burritocoin-cli getblockchaininfo

# Get a block by hash, with full transactions
burritocoin-cli getblock <blockhash> 2

# Get a transaction
burritocoin-cli getrawtransaction <txid> true

# Validate an address
burritocoin-cli validateaddress <address>

Common writes (require an unlocked, funded wallet)

# Generate a fresh receive address
burritocoin-cli getnewaddress "label" bech32

# Send to an address
burritocoin-cli sendtoaddress <address> <amount>

# Create a raw transaction
burritocoin-cli createrawtransaction '[{"txid":"...","vout":0}]' '{"<addr>":1.0}'

Mining

External miners using getblocktemplate must request both segwit and mweb in the rules array — the daemon rejects template requests that omit mweb, even though MWEB itself doesn't need to be active for the requested block. This is inherited from Litecoin's MWEB rollout.

# Correct
burritocoin-cli getblocktemplate '{"rules":["segwit","mweb"]}'

# Will error -8 "rule not supported"
burritocoin-cli getblocktemplate '{"rules":["segwit"]}'

RPC differences from Bitcoin Core

• Default ports are 9226 / 9227 (mainnet), not 8332 / 8333.
• getblocktemplate requires mweb in rules as noted above.
• Address formats use the BurritoCoin prefixes documented in section 2.
• All other RPCs behave identically to Bitcoin Core 0.21.

Genesis Premine Note

The genesis block contains a single coinbase output of 148,000,000 BRTO locked to a raw public key (P2PK), not a hashed address (P2PKH). This is deliberately preserved in the chainstate — daemons and indexers must not strip the genesis coinbase as unspendable (the way some Bitcoin-derived indexers do by default), or transactions that later spend the premine will fail validation.

If you're building an explorer, indexer, or auditing tool: query the genesis transaction by txid (d347dbef904ecdb3653e4eaf2fdcfa7fdc287db36c9e287102b2c757947d7d83), not by any derived address. The premine output has no canonical base58/bech32 address because P2PK outputs aren't address-indexed by convention.

Software & Releases

Source code is published at github.com/BurritoCoinDev/BurritoCoin. Tagged releases (binaries for Linux, macOS, Windows) appear on the Releases page.

Building from source (Linux)

# Daemon + CLI only (headless server build)
git clone https://github.com/BurritoCoinDev/BurritoCoin
cd BurritoCoin
sudo apt install -y build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake \
                    pkg-config bsdmainutils python3 libssl-dev libevent-dev \
                    libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev \
                    libboost-thread-dev libboost-test-dev \
                    libdb-dev libdb++-dev libminiupnpc-dev libfmt-dev
./autogen.sh
./configure --without-gui --with-incompatible-bdb
make -j$(nproc)
# Output: src/burritocoind, src/burritocoin-cli, src/burritocoin-tx,
# src/burritocoin-wallet

# Add Qt deps for the GUI wallet (burritocoin-qt)
sudo apt install -y qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libqrencode-dev
./configure --with-incompatible-bdb     # without --without-gui this time
make -j$(nproc)
# Output additionally: src/qt/burritocoin-qt

Cross-compilation

The standard depends/ system from Bitcoin Core works for Windows (HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32) and macOS (HOST=x86_64-apple-darwin). See doc/build-windows.md in the repo.

Brand Assets

For wallet UIs, exchange listings, explorer logos, and similar uses. Free to use as long as you don't recolor or modify the wordmark.

Contact

For exchange listing applications, wallet integration support, and partnership inquiries:

GitHub Issues: github.com/BurritoCoinDev/BurritoCoin/issues

A dedicated listings email is forthcoming. In the meantime, open a GitHub issue tagged listing or integration and we'll respond there.

For technical bugs and code-level questions, open an issue at GitHub Issues.

Public-key signed proof-of-association (e.g., for sanctions screening or to confirm a wallet ownership claim) can be coordinated via the email above.