Welcome to PYBTC¶
Python library for Bitcoin.
Current version is 2.0.
Key Features¶
- 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
- Mining pool basic primitives
Quick library Installation¶
$ pip install pybtc
Getting Started¶
Usage example:
import pybtc
a = pybtc.Address()
print(a.address)
print(a.private_key.wif)
What’s new in pybtc 2.0 ?¶
- Mnemonic code generation (BIP39)
- Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets (BIP32)
- Wallet class implemented acording BIP44
- Imporved transaction deserialization perfomance
- Multisig transacton signing regardless of sequence
Source code¶
The project is hosted on GitHub
Please feel free to file an issue on the bug tracker if you have found a bug or have some suggestion in order to improve the library.
Dependencies¶
- Python 3.3.3+
- secp256k1
Authors and License¶
The pybtc
package was initially written by Aleksey Karpov and development continues with contributors.
Recent contributors:
It’s GPL-3.0 licensed and freely available.
Feel free to improve this package and send a pull request to GitHub.