BSV is Bitcoin SPV is Freedom Anvil is Connectivity
Bitcoin Overlay Node in a box. curl -fsSL anvil.sendbsv.com/install | sudo One command. ~37 MB single binary. ~$0.50 in BSV to fund the wallet. Your VPS is now part of the BSV mesh. What you actually
v2.1.0 — capabilities for multi-node app consumers Apps that depend on Anvil-Mesh now have better tools for treating the federation as a fault-tolerant surface instead of a single endpoint. •
A week ago I wrote that the mempool had to die for me to see what Anvil actually was. The coordination seam between transaction processing and the applications that people use. A communication layer,
I just released AnvilCast v1.0.0. Try it out: https://anvil.sendbsv.com/cast/ It's a screen-sharing app — host, viewer, camera, chat, file drop, recording, annotation — and at first glance it looks like
The mempool must die, and Teranode is about to kill it completely. Instead of digital purgatory, transactions will immediately climb micro trees on broadcast and escape the morass of waiting in limbo
Today we shipped the first major release of Anvil. Here's what it does and why it matters. What is Anvil? A ~15MB binary that turns any Linux VPS into a BSV SPV node. No full blockchain download.
Your Anvil node can now watch BSV addresses in real-time from the mempool. Add addresses via API, get instant SSE notifications when payments arrive — and when UTXOs get spent. Persistent storage
This is the biggest update since launch. Your node now pushes data to clients in real time, logs every mesh connection, and verifies its own install. What's new: Real-time push (SSE) Subscribe to any
Drop a build folder — HTML, CSS, JS, images, fonts — OR just single files and Foundry inscribes every file as a 1Sat Ordinal. It rewrites all internal references (src, href, url(), import paths) to
Guided one-liner installer. — Auto-detects public IP, generates identity, syncs headers, shows funding address — 3 minutes from bare VPS to live mesh node. New CLI: anvil help, anvil info, anvil
The generic overlay services engine is live. Any UTXO-based overlay type is now a plugin. Topic managers decide what to admit, lookup services answer queries. BRC100-compatible: TaggedBEEF in, STEAK
The Anvil Explorer isn't hosted anywhere. It's inscribed on BSV — every byte of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a Bitcoin transaction. Any Anvil node serves it from the chain. No CDN. No hosting
