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I'm trying to create a bitcoin address with the bitcoin-python library. I tried this code:

import bitcoinrpc
bitcoinrpc.connect_to_local().getnewaddress()

But I got this error:

error: [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

I am running the bitcoind daemon. Why am I getting this error and how do I fix it? or can someone direct me to an easier way to learn to develop with bitcoin -

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  • Check bitcoind's log, which is debug.log in its configuration directory. It should contain some additional information. I suspect you forgot to set the RPC user name and password in bitcoin-python's configuration to allow it to connect to bitcoind.
    – David A. Harding
    Jan 14, 2015 at 23:57
  • Is bitcoind running? That's the error you would get if bitcoin weren't listening on its port.
    – Nick ODell
    Jan 14, 2015 at 23:59
  • For easier way I am working with this Python project: bitbucket.org/miohtama/cryptoassets - expect 0.1 release in few days.
    – Mikko Ohtamaa
    Jan 15, 2015 at 2:20
  • Ok now there is a release pypi.python.org/pypi/cryptoassets.core and tutorial file:///Users/mikko/code/cryptoassets/cryptoassets/docs/build/html/gettingstarted.html
    – Mikko Ohtamaa
    Feb 6, 2015 at 10:11

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Most likely you have not enabled JSON-RPC server in your bitcoin.conf.

You need to have:

# Enable JSON-RPC
server=1

# Username and password
rpcuser=foo
rpcpassword=bar

# This must be enabled for gettransaction() to work
txindex=1

For more information see

http://cryptoassetscore.readthedocs.org/en/latest/backends.html#module-cryptoassets.core.backend.bitcoind

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Richard Kiss has made a nice library for creating/manipulating bitcoin addresses using python here: https://github.com/richardkiss/pycoin

That may be easier than getting RPC to work.

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