In this chapter, we learned how to get started programming bitcoin with Python. We explored Blockchain.info API programming with Python to get statistics and other bitcoin market data.
We also learned how to get started with mining bitcoin. We looked at the various ways to mine bitcoin, and we learned about why bitcoin mining may not be for everybody because of its increasing competition and difficulty.
In the next chapter, we will learn how to start running bitcoin programmatically by way of accepting bitcoin on your website, running API-based microservices, or by building a bitcoin trading bot.