Python bitcoin library

Feature Support

• Basic functions
• Supports addresses types PUBKEY, P2PKH, P2SH, P2SH-PWPKH, P2WPKH, P2WSH.
• Supports BIP32(Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets), BIP39(Mnemonic code generation)
• Supports BIP141(Segregated Witness)
• Transaction constructor

Installation

To install pybtc, simply use pip

$ git clone https://github.com/bitaps-com/pybtc
$ cd pybtc
$ python3 setup.py install

Dependencies

• Python 3.3.3+
• autogen
• autoconf
• automake
• pkg-config
• gcc
• pip3

Build on macOS

brew install autogen autoconf automake pkg-config
pip3 install --requirement requirements-dev.txt
python3 setup.py install

Build on Ubuntu

apt-get -y install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev
pip3 install --requirement requirements-dev.txt
python3 setup.py install

Documentation

Documentation is available at https://pybtc.readthedocs.io

How to Contribute

In order to make a clone of the GitHub repo: open the link and press the “Fork” button on the upper-right menu of the web page.

Workflow is pretty straightforward:

1. Clone the GitHub
2. Make a change
3. Make sure all tests passed
4. Add a record into file into change.log.
5. Commit changes to own pybtc clone
6. Make pull request from github page for your clone against master branch