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Hands-On Bitcoin Programming with Python

By : Harish Garg

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By: Harish Garg

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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.

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Getting Started with Bitcoin

Introduction to bitcoin and blockchains

Getting a bitcoin wallet

Getting and sending bitcoins

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Programming Bitcoin and Blockchain with Python

Programming bitcoin with Python

Creating a multisignature bitcoin address

Blockchain API programming with Python

Installing the Blockchain.info Python library

Learning to mine bitcoin

How to mine bitcoin

Increasing difficulty in mining bitcoin

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Earning Bitcoin Programmatically

Accepting bitcoin on your website

Building and releasing bitcoin-enabled APIs

Selling microservices on the 21.co marketplace

Building a bitcoin trading bot

Triggering the bitcoin trade advice alert

How to get a current bid and asking price for bitcoin

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Bitcoin Data Analysis

Manipulating and visualizing bitcoin price data

Getting set up for data analysis

Getting, reading in, and cleaning bitcoin price data

Exploring, manipulating, and visualizing the cleaned-up data

Exploring bitcoin transaction graphs

Collecting and analyzing Bitcoin Dice game data

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Installing the Blockchain.info Python library

The following are the steps to install the blockchain Python library:

Open the command-line program on your computer.
Run the pip install blockchain command to install the blockchain library.

The following screenshot shows the installation of bitcoin:

Getting bitcoin exchange rates from Blockchain.info

The following steps shows the method for bitcoin exchange rates:

First, import the exchangerates classes from the blockchain library:

#!/usr/bin/env python

# import blockchain library
from blockchain import exchangerates

Exchange rates define a get_ticker method, which returns the exchange rates data in a dictionary object. Call this method and save the resulting object. The...