IRONCLAW BTC Node

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🔥 Quick Start

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json or any MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "btc-node": {
      "type": "sse",
      "url": "https://mcp.btcnode.uk/sse"
    }
  }
}

That's it. No install. No API keys. No setup. Free tools work immediately.

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🆓 Free Tools (No Payment Required)

Tool	Description	Cost
btc_info	Blockchain info (block height, difficulty, peers)	FREE
btc_fees	Fee rate estimates (high/medium/low sat/vB)	FREE
btc_mempool	Mempool status (pending tx, size MB)	FREE

# Try them right now — no payment, no API key
curl https://btcnode.uk/api/info
curl https://btcnode.uk/api/fees
curl https://btcnode.uk/api/mempool

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💰 Paid Tools ($0.001 each via x402)

Tool	Description	Cost
btc_tx	Transaction lookup by hash	$0.001
btc_addr	Address portfolio (balance, UTXOs, history)	$0.001
btc_trace	Transaction flow tracing (2 hops)	$0.001
btc_fees_predict	Fee rate prediction	$0.001
btc_whales	Large Bitcoin movement alerts (10K+ BTC)	$0.001
sec_insider	SEC insider trades (Form 4/3/5)	$0.001
web_scrape	URL to clean markdown	$0.001
ai_summarize	AI text summarization	$0.001
systems_theory	Systems theory analysis (6 lenses)	$0.001
game_theory	Game theory analysis	$0.001
capital_flows	Capital flow tracing across markets	$0.001
reddit_hot	Hot posts from any subreddit	$0.001
reddit_search	Search Reddit by keyword	$0.001
reddit_trending	Trending topics on Reddit	$0.001

Paid tools use x402 protocol — pay $0.001 USDC per call on Base mainnet. Your wallet approves the payment directly in the MCP client.

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🏗 Architecture

MCP Client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.)
        │
        ▼  SSE (mcp.btcnode.uk/sse)
   ┌──────────────┐
   │  MCP Server   │  17 tools, x402 payment middleware
   └──────┬───────┘
          │  HTTP API
   ┌──────┴───────┐
   │  BTC API      │  REST endpoints, paywall enforcement
   └──────┬───────┘
          │  RPC
   ┌──────┴───────┐
   │  Bitcoin Core │  Full node (953K+ blocks, 10 peers)
   │  LND          │  Lightning Network (12K sats)
   └──────────────┘

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🚀 Self-Hosted Deployment

git clone https://github.com/cariohca-ux/x402-btc-node.git
cd x402-btc-node
npm install
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your settings
node mcp-server.mjs

Requirements: Node.js 18+, a synced Bitcoin Core node (or use the hosted endpoint at btcnode.uk).

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📋 Listings

Platform	Status	URL
Glama	✅ Live	glama.ai/mcp/servers/cariohca-ux/x402-btc-node
mcp.so	✅ Live	mcp.so/server/ironclaw-btc-node
PayAPI Market	✅ Live	payapi.market
MCP Registry	🔄 Auto-published via PayAPI	registry.modelcontextprotocol.io

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📄 License

MIT — do what you want. Built by cariohca-ux. Bitcoin data served from a real full node.