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Hands-On Bitcoin Programming with Python

By : BignumWorks Software LLP
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Hands-On Bitcoin Programming with Python

By: BignumWorks Software LLP

Overview of this book

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that’s changing the face of online payments. Hands-On Bitcoin Programming with Python teaches you to build software applications for mining and creating Bitcoins using Python. This book starts with the basics of both Bitcoin and blockchain and gives you an overview of these inherent concepts by showing you how to build Bitcoin-driven applications with Python. Packed with clear instructions and practical examples, you will learn to understand simple Python coding examples that work with this cryptocurrency. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to mine Bitcoins, accept Bitcoin payments on the app, and work with the basics of blockchain technology to create simply distributed ledgers.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we explored how to enable bitcoin payments on a website, introduced you to BitPay, learned about how to generate a bitcoin payment button, and how to add the payment button to our websites. We also introduced the 21.co marketplace and buying/selling services for bitcoin, as well as writing a bare bones bitcoin trading bot. We learned how to get the current bidding and asking prices for bitcoin. We also learned how to decide as to whether to buy or sell bitcoins, as well as how to send out an email alert advising us whether to execute that thread.

In the next chapter, we will learn about performing data analysis on bitcoin data.