Is the Bitpay bitcore node&libs still supported? They look pretty much dead on github although I could start and sync mainnet&testnet nodes. Does anyone know why did they abandon the project? (possibly by keeping following versions private)
Also does anyone know of a node implementation that has similar features to bitcore, i.e. I am most interested in being able to query it for all the transactions to or from an address.
Is a bad idea to work with a 3rd party node, i would recommend you to install your own node. as you can see in the top of this site there is a link to download it (
https://bitcoin.org/en/download )
isn't easy to work with your own node, but once you get familiarized with the commands and download those +200Gb you will be able to do anything you want. You can start learning about bitcoin-cli commands to work with your node. Good luck.
what do you mean by "third party node"?!!!
bitcore is also a full verifying node just like bitcoin core but it is written in Javascript and by other developers and it is open source like any other full node:
https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore-nodeit is just that it doesn't seem to be active any more.