How to send user input data(Bitcoin address) from iPhone to server and then send Bitcoin back to user's Bitcoin address?

Question

Background I just got started yesterday learning Python and I'm currently building my first iPhone game.

What I'm trying to do is create a Bitcoin Pot Jar inside an iPhone app like Sarutobi:https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id932194840?mt=8

You can test out the game to see how it works. All the user does is paste their bitcoin address in an input field, somehow this data goes somewhere and then the user receives randomly small tip during gameplay. How do I create something like this? What code is used to make this work?

Answer 1

How do I send a Bitcoin address from an iPhone to my server?

Basic Python client socket example:

Server side:

import socket

serversocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
serversocket.bind(('localhost', 8089))
serversocket.listen(5) # become a server socket, maximum 5 connections

while True:
    connection, address = serversocket.accept()
    buf = connection.recv(64)
    if len(buf) > 0:
        print buf
        break

Client Side:

import socket

clientsocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
clientsocket.connect(('localhost', 8089))
clientsocket.send('hello')

How do I make a Bitcoin transaction using Python from my server?

How to make a simple payment with the python-bitcoinlib?

(Rewritten for brevity)

Run bitcoind, install python-bitcoinlib, then run this code:

from bitcoin.core import COIN, b2lx
from bitcoin.base58 import CBitcoinAddress
import bitcoin.wallet
import bitcoin.rpc

rpc = bitcoin.rpc.Proxy()
addr = CBitcoinAddress('1JwSSubhmg6iPtRjtyqhUYYH7bZg3Lfy1T')

txid = rpc.sendtoaddress(addr, 0.001 * COIN)
print(b2lx(txid))