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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)

Learning to mine bitcoin

Some features of bitcoin mining are as follows:

  • Bitcoin mining is the process of adding bitcoin transactional data to bitcoin's global public ledger of past transactions. Each bitcoin miner gets involved with all the other miners in order to gather the outstanding transactions into a block by dealing with specialized analytical and arithmetical problems.
  • In order to gain accuracy and solve the problems, bitcoin miners gain all of the transactions they process.
  • In addition to transaction fees, miners also receive an additional reward for each block they mine. Anyone can participate in bitcoin mining by running a computer program. In addition to running on traditional computers, some companies have designed specialized bitcoin mining hardware that can process transactions and build blocks much more quickly.

One can choose to mine bitcoin in the cloud...