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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 learned how to prepare our setup for data analysis. We saw how to get, read in, and clean the price data. We also learned how to explore, manipulate, and visualize the cleaned-up data.

We also explored some of the bitcoin and blockchain graphs that we can create. We learned where to get the relevant data, and we read this data in a Jupyter Notebook and imported the necessary modules. We cleaned up and manipulated this data, and finally, we created graphs out of this data and a notebook, but without using Python.

We also explored the data from a dice games portal. We added the data from the API and used pandas to convert it into a tabular format. We explored the data and found the things that needed cleaning up. We cleaned up and manipulated the data and made it ready for analysis.