Questions tagged [python]
Python is an interpreted, general-purpose high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability.
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bitcoin core wallet and python bitcoin-lib
I have a regtest bitcoin environment with nodes and wallets. I'm running bitcoind and bitcoin-cli, version v0.21.0.0.
So in my node i created my wallet with a bitcoin-cli -regtest createwallet node1 &...
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Generate BTC Compressed Address
The below code generate uncompressed address with and the Private key for this uncompressed address. How to generate compressed address with it's private key ?
I know there is packages like bitcoin ...
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How Create Bitcoin wallet from a private key works?
I'm trying to understand how i can create a pair of bitcoin private key and public key with : https://github.com/Destiner/blocksmith
for example :
import blocksmith
kg = blocksmith.KeyGenerator()
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bitcoin-etl: problems with installing
I am trying to install bitcoin-etl: https://github.com/blockchain-etl/bitcoin-etl to analyze bitcoin blockchain.
I have Mac OS and python3, I run this in terminal:
pip install bitcoin-etl
Also tried ...
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How can I pull the “Candles” argument from the Huobi websocket data?
I've a problem with Huobi Websocket, I know my ways in REST API but new to asyncio and websockets, and Huobi only gives resonable amount of history through websocket request so I'm stuck with it. I'm ...
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Python: Why the addresses and keys generated by pywallet and bip32utils using the same 12 mnemonic words don't match?
I tried to generate wallets by using pywallet and bip32utils (Python). But I noted that the addresses/keys of the 2 wallets, namely wallet_pywallet and wallet_bip39 don't match with each other.
I ...
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How to verify a lnurl-auth callback with python
I want to create a Python implementation of an lnurl-auth server.
I started a quick HTTP server to be the callback url, and captured the signed callback sent by BLW on Android.
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How convert Bitcoin Privat Key Compression to public address?
This script gets the public address from the uncompressed private key.
import ecdsa
import hashlib
import base58
private_key = input("privatekey: ") # ...
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Is there a simple python script for xpub generation from private key
I need a python script to verify, in an air gapped system, that my 24-word (or 12-word) mnemonic seed indeed generates the xpub that my wallet is showing me.
Is there a simple script that does that, ...
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Process for finding nonce
Assume we have a transaction in hex (tx_hex) and we want to find a nonce such that
SHA-256(SHA-256(nonce|| tx_hex)) = new_transaction_id ('||' denotes concatenation)
first bits consist of 32 zeros. ...
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How do I fix socket.timeout error when getting data from blockchain.info? [closed]
I'm writing a python script using the blockchain API that takes as input a list of seed addresses, gets their transactions and the input/output addresses of each transaction. Then I get the ...
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How can I generate SegWit addresses from a mnemonic using python?
So, I have written a script that generates BIP39 mnemonics. I now want to generate N native SegWit public keys from this mnemonic.
I have found this, but it generates legacy addresses. It uses the ...
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How do I convert a private key in hex to a Segwit private key expected by Electrum?
I've been following this code to generate SegWit addresses with python. However, I'm confused because this script doesn't output the private key in a usable way for Electrum.
I found this site which ...
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Does python-bitcoinlib and the Bitcoin Core functional test framework share code? Were changes ever pushed down/upstream?
Does python-bitcoinlib and the Bitcoin Core functional test framework share code? Were changes ever pushed down/upstream?
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How to generate bitcoin address with gpu in python [duplicate]
I have seen a lot of bitcoin address generator with python, but all of them run on cpu, and are very slow,, for fun and educational purposes, I have been trying to use gpu to run the python script to ...
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Test vector 1 BIP32 in Python
i tried to replicate code in this git
https://github.com/tongokongo/bitcoin-basics/blob/master/HD_wallet/bip32.py .
I'm not familiar with python but the xpub is correct (this is the Test Vector 1 from ...
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Download blocks in blk00000.dat format from a specific period
For study purposes, I would like to download blocks from a specific period, i.e. January 2017 - June 2017, in blk.dat format (blk00000.dat, blk*.dat).
I downloaded blockchain.core but it makes me ...
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python-bitcoinlib: Synchronise block headers
I am trying to run a simple python script to synchronise the Bitcoin block headers for an SPV client, using the python-bitcoinlib. This is the code that I am running, after doing the handshake:
msg = ...
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How to generate Hash160 from a private key with the Bitcoin module
I want to fix the script code. The script generates from a random private key Bitcoin Address by function (pubtoaddr) and works
on the Bitcoin module:
https://github.com/primal100/pybitcointools/blob/...
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XPub to YPub Converter (python) - Last digits wrong
The code below is generating an YPub from XPub with the last 6 digits wrong.
How can I verify what's happening and fix this error?
e.g.:
It should be ...
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SPV client TCP connection in python
I am trying to implement an SPV client in python (for my own learning). I want to start by making a simple TCP connection to a full node, but I either cannot get a response to my version message, or ...
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library for validating bitcoin private and public keys
I am building a python script that gets a string and determines if it is a valid bitcoin private key or public key, and if so it returns its type/format (base58, BIP32, HexaDecimal etc.) and its ...
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Address generator error with python
I had created a script that creates a bitcoin private key, public key and address, for checking if all works fine I create one and check the private key on https://walletgenerator.net/, and it outputs ...
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How do I get bip32 public key and address from private key in python?
I have checked related questions and did not find answer. I also tried to use "secp256k1", "bip-0032", "seedrecover" and did not succeed.
When my input is a private key ...
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How to use python rpc bitcoin to get the historical transaction record of a wallet address
How to use python rpc bitcoin to get the historical transaction record of a wallet address？My computer has synchronized all btc blocks, and txindex=1 has been configured. I want to try to get all the ...
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Parsing transaction hash from rawblock data
I got block raw data next url
https://blockchain.info/rawblock/00000000000000000002447735c7723ee9188322c0938e6587866a4458b9135f?format=hex
Can I find transaction hash in url used python?
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Can I get all block header data like the SPV node?
It hasn't been long since I studied Blockchain.
I only need header data, not all block data, for study purposes.
As far as I know, the SPV node stores only the block's header information.
Can i get ...
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Cannot import python-bitcoinrpc
I am unable to import the package bitcoinrpc.
I have installed it in python2 and python3 using python3 -m pip install python-bitcoinrpc/python -m pip install python-bitcoinrpc AND by cloning the repo ...
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Help needed with PyWallet and wallet dump using MacOS
Could anyone please give me some guidance on how to perform a wallet dump using PyWallet on a MacBook (macOS 10.12 Sierra)? I’m not very savvy with this stuff at all. Have an old wallet.dat file from ...
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convert private key to bitcoin address using python or php
I have private key like this 5JYJWrRd7sbqEzL9KR9dYTGrxyLqZEhPtnCtcvhC5t8ZvWgS9iC how to convert to bicoin address using python or php?
example bitcoin address
18V7u8YNHKwG944TCkzYYj32hb6fdFPvQf
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How can bitinfocharts.com know the changes in BTC deposited to Binance?
I find this page here, which tells me how much BTC is deposited to Binance. How does this (or a similar) page work?
When I deposit BTC to Binance, I am given an address, which I am fairly sure it's ...
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Calculate BitcoinGold Block Header Hash [closed]
I am trying to calculate block hash # 632295
{
'version': 536870912,
'prev_block_hash': '000000017590609fd72cadc5fd05732cfa1760bd882213afbb7b788c42e115c8',
'merkle_root': '...
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Connection refused when using bitcoinrpc on Linux
I am new to python-bitcoinrpc(also new to VM Linux actually) and I want to use the blockchain parser from alecalve to get ordered blocks. I used Windows to download the blockchain data into an ...
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Is there such a service as an unlimited Bitcoin wallet with an API?
Well, I did tons of research and currently I'm using bitcoinlib for python to have a wallet which should be able to hold over one million addresses and occassionally broadcast transactions.
It has ...
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I need a few lines of python to make WIF addresses
I have code which generates WIF keys from hex keys. It just need a few more lines to generate WIF addresses.
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import binascii, hashlib, base58, sys
def convert(z):
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How can I execute `getnewaddress` at my full node from a remote server?
I have a full node running on a digital ocean droplet. I have an app running at heroku, and I want to execute getnewaddress from this app. I'm trying to generate BTC addresses to which users can send ...
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How can I ask for reward after mining? [duplicate]
Let's assume that I found the nonce for the block the world try to mine now. How can I say in python that this is the nonce and this is my wallet address so transfer the reward to it?!
Note: This ...
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bip39 converting from entropy to seed failing tests with entropy “00000000000000000000000000000000”
Trying to convert hexadecimal string of entropy to seed sentence with the below snippet. Failing the first test with 16 zero bytes. It seems that my function came to conclusion that checksum is '1011' ...
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Why downloaded Block Size doesn't match with actual block size mentioned on network?
I am trying to download a block(Height:474044) using an API from here in python. Block is obviously downloaded in JSON format. But when I store it in a file on my system it shows very weird size ...
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How to get uncompressed BTC address and private key from bit module for Python?
I am new in programming and BTC. I want to make some BTC address with private keys. Till now I learn that we have compressed and uncompressed private keys. But I get only compressed private keys and ...
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How to Construct a Ping Message
I am struggling greatly trying to figure out how to send a basic "PING" message, and receive back a "PONG" response.
import random
import hashlib
import socket
PEER_IP = "35.187.200.6"
PEER_PORT = ...
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How to verify locking and unlocking scripts?
I've selected an arbitrary transaction id and retrieved its associated transaction details using the blockcypher explorer as follows:
from blockcypher import get_transaction_details
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Issue generating private Key and segwit address with python
I used the following script to generate my private key and the corresponding segwit address.
Then to test it, i sent funds to the address and imported the private key on blockchain wallet;
RESULT: ...
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How to generate unspendable testnet bitcoin address with python?
I'm trying to generate a testnet address. However, I tried to write this python program (using help of various online code places), and I created this program. The program is designed to take a 20 ...
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Decoding hex scriptsig in Python
Running decodescript on d1a076722d11ddfd0fadb96d6d960b8b2ad6c6369570cd00df70a801a6be9e44 is returning:
{
"asm": "0 ...
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How to run a python script when occur incoming transaction in Bitcoin core 0.18?
I want to run a python script when occur an incoming transaction. I think set zapwallettxes flag in bitcoin.conf but I don't know where set the script path to execute.
Is it possible to execute ...
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How to create a Bitcoin Transaction With Protocoin
Please how do I create a btc transaction and broadcast it with protocoin library? I want to create a transaction that will relay to the node without validating inputs and outputs. Of course I know the ...
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How to Pay to Multisig Wallet Using python-bitcoinrpc?
How do I pay to a multisig wallet? I am using the Python API (based on python-bitcoinrpc) that ships with the bitcoin source code, in directory bitcoin/test/functional. I'm using regtest.
I call ...
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In Python RPC Calls, How is vout Address Derived for P2PK transaction?
How is the vout address derived for a P2PK transaction? I am using the Python API that ships with the bitcoin source code, in directory bitcoin/test/functional. I'm using regtest.
I have written a ...
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How do I sign a transaction in Python?
How do I sign a P2SH transaction in Python? I am using the Python API that ships with the bitcoin source code, in directory bitcoin/test/functional. I'm using regtest.
Here is a fragment of my unit ...
