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- Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Sprache: Englisch
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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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
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Hands-On Bitcoin Programming with Python
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Harish Kumar Garg founder of BignumWorks Software LLP, is a data scientist and a lead software developer with 17 years' experience in the software industry. BignumWorks Software LLP is an India-based software consultancy that provides consultancy services in the area of software development and technical training. Harish has worked for McAfee and Intel for over 11 years. He is an expert in creating data visualizations using R, Python, and web-based visualization libraries.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Hands-On Bitcoin Programming with Python
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Preface
What this book covers
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Getting Started with Bitcoin
Introduction to bitcoin and blockchains
What is bitcoin?
Uses of bitcoin
What is a blockchain?
Attributes of bitcoin and blockchain
Getting a bitcoin wallet
The different forms of bitcoin wallet
Getting and sending bitcoins
Summary
Programming Bitcoin and Blockchain with Python
Programming bitcoin with Python
Pi Bitcoin tools library
How to generate private keys and public keys
Creating a multisignature bitcoin address
Blockchain API programming with Python
Installing the Blockchain.info Python library
Getting bitcoin exchange rates from Blockchain.info
Statistics
Block explorer methods
Learning to mine bitcoin
How to mine bitcoin
Increasing difficulty in mining bitcoin
Summary
Earning Bitcoin Programmatically
Accepting bitcoin on your website
Introduction to BitPay
How to generate a bitcoin payment button
How to add a bitcoin payment button to your website
Building and releasing bitcoin-enabled APIs
21.co marketplace
21.co SDK
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
The triggering of buy bitcoin
The triggering of sell bitcoin
Summary
Bitcoin Data Analysis
Manipulating and visualizing bitcoin price data
Getting set up for data analysis
Getting, reading in, and cleaning bitcoin price data
DataFrame
Data cleanup
Setting the index to the Date column
Exploring, manipulating, and visualizing the cleaned-up data
Data visualization
Exploring bitcoin transaction graphs
Bitcoin and blockchain graphs
Exploring, cleaning up, and analyzing data
Visualizing data
Collecting and analyzing Bitcoin Dice game data
Getting data from the Games Web API
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Preface
In this book, you will be introduced to Bitcoin and Blockchain, and how to take part in the Bitcoin ecosystem. You will learn about Bitcoin and its features, Blockchain, and how both can work together. You'll also learn how to use Pi Bitcoin tools to program Bitcoin with Python. You will learn about interacting with Blockchain APIs programmatically with Python, and about Bitcoin mining and how to get started with it. We will also explore Bitcoin trading bots. This book also deals with exploring and analyzing the tremendous amount of data being generated in the Bitcoin ecosystem; how to get, clean, manipulate, and visualize Bitcoin price data; and how to analyze a Bitcoin dice game's data using Python's data analysis tools.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Getting Started with Bitcoin
