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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)

Getting Started with Bitcoin

This chapter focuses on bitcoin, its features, and how can we take part in the bitcoin ecosystem. The bitcoin ecosystem runs by its users getting, spending, and sending bitcoin wallets. In order to understand the concepts of this chapter, you should have at least a basic understanding of the command line on the computer you're using, and you should have Python 3.x installed on your computer.

In this chapter, we will look at the following topics:

  • Introducing bitcoin and its features
  • Introducing blockchain
  • Attributes of bitcoin and blockchain
  • How to get a bitcoin wallet
  • The different forms of bitcoin wallet including getting, sending, and spending