Questions tagged [python]
Python is an interpreted, general-purpose high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability.
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Retrieve number of OP-RETURN transaction
Is there a possible way to extract the bitcoin transaction protocoll with Python and extract specifically OP RETURN transaction?
I want to plot the number of those over the course of time to derive ...
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How do I use an issued API key in my python 3 script to bypass the request limiter?
I got an API key from blockchain.info to bypass the request limiter, but I don't know how to use it and I can't find any relevant info online.
url = "https://blockchain.info/rawblock/" + str(s)
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broadcasting error for raw bitcoin transaction testnet
I am trying to create a raw transaction and send it to the testnet. I am using testnet keys and here is the simplified readable output from my script:
decoded private key: ...
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Why getinfo() and listchannels() inactive channel count differs?
I have strange results comparing node information outputs between getinfo() and listchannels() calls. Maybe someone has thoughts what is wrong (with my trivial code or with c-lightning itself):
chans ...
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What are the web3py equivalent for communicating with bitcoin in Python?
I am fairly new to working with Python, I have a requirement where I need to perform some basic bitcoin operations on my local system rather than relying on some external API's, those function mainly ...
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Question about Python library coincurve/libsecp256k
I am a noob with cryptography, just trying to learn using python and the library Coincurve ( https://github.com/ofek/coincurve ) which is a mature Python binding for libsecp256k1.
The following code ...
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Create a transaction spendable in a specific block height
I am new in Bitcoin and I try to create an address in Bitcoind and send a transaction that the amount will be spendable in a specific height of the blockchain.
Here is what I have done:
privateKey = ...
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How to sign bitcoin raw transactions with Python offline
I have a raw bitcoin transaction created using createrawtransaction
unsigned_tx = "...
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Why future Bitcoin Core release shouldn't be in python?
Python offers various advantages including simplified rules of coding and ease of readability. It offers OOP, cross platform compatibility and has numerous libraries that have been added over time. It ...
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Bitcoin walletnotify doesn't pass the txid as %s
Thoroughly searched this online but haven't found an answer yet. Basically I'm using the below line in my conf file:
walletnotify=C:\pathname\filename.py %s
It is supposed to run my python file ...
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python-bitcoinrpc: modulenotfounderror no module named 'bitcoinrpc'
I'm running bitcoind/ bitcoind -regtest on Windows 10 and am already able to use bitcoin-cli -regtest along with json-rpc methods to perform basic operations and get balances etc. When I try to do ...
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Fastest way to generate millions of public keys from private keys (Python/C#)
I have run into a problem when trying to generate public keys from my mnemonics via privatekeys. The mnemonic -> privkey is fairly fast. Although when deriving the m/44./0./0./0/0 public adress it ...
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getrawtransaction not working for 0th BTC block transaction
I am trying to insert BTC blocks and transactions in MONGODB collection from count 0 using Python3. getrawtransaction is giving output for block 1 but not for block 0. Can somebody help me why this ...
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Bitcoin RPC connection
I am trying to insert bitcoin transactions into MongoDB using python3. Below is my code :
import pymongo
import sys
import json
import time
from bitcoinrpc.authproxy import AuthServiceProxy, ...
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Mutlisig tansactions with trezor with multiple inputs and outputs not able to broadcast
I am trying to do a multisig
here is my final hex
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Why is Target < Blockhash?
I am currently trying to validate a blocks hash against its target in python3:
This is a block in the Blockcypher testnet, and I am using this formula from the Bitcoin Wiki.
block_hash = '...
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Python - Querying bitcoin's block header using leveldb
I am facing a stupid problem. I am trying to read bitcoin/blocks/index leveldb using plyvel. I've set up a regtest and i know there is a block with the hash :
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Python: How generate bitcoin addresses using electrum library
What am I doing wrong here? I'm trying to generate bitcoin addresses from the seed but they do not match with ones from electrum application. Did I miss something? And I also have trouble with ...
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Struggling to successfully broadcast a p2pkh transaction
I've been experimenting with sending bitcoin transactions with python for the past week. I successfully was able to send p2wpkh->ALL address types, p2sh-p2wpkh->ALL address types.
What I am ...
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Python library for Multisignature HD wallets
Is there is any python library is available that allow creation of Multisignature HD wallets ?
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Get Bitcoin Wallet balance with Python
On a tutorial in Youtube
it uses pybitcointools. Upon searching it's github repository, I have found that it was not maintained anymore. Are there any alternative to this library which can get wallet ...
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bitcoin rpc api createrawtransaction with python returns -3: Expected type array, got object
experimenting with JSON RPC API using bitcoinrpc.authproxy for python.
so far it works in all instances accept when i try to create a raw transaction.
somewhere along the way im passing parameters in ...
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Is there any python library could be used to decodescript in output
For example decode the ScriptPubKey like
4104678afdb0fe5548271967f1a67130b7105cd6a828e03909a67962e0ea1f61deb649f6bc3f4cef38c4f35504e51ec112de5c384df7ba0b8d578a4c702b6bf11d5fac
to some data like ...
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What could this Python Assertion error mean?
When I run the code below, sending a BTC transaction to the blockchain (using blockcypher api) I get an Assertion Error. I am not sure what an Assertion error means.
The code:
Btw the address had ...
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How do I get the value of a btc address transaction with pybitcoin tools?
Lets say that I execute the code below when the user accesses the deposit page.
my_private_key = random_key()
my_public_key = privtopub(my_private_key)
my_address = pubtoaddr(my_public_key)
And I ...
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Why does this return an ssl error when using pybitcointools?
Really confused as to why this error persists.
I have upgraded pip ( I believe)
And have installed pybitcointools...
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Trying to create a bitcoin based webapp in python which takes BTC deposits. How would I use pybitcointools to implement this?
Trying to create a bitcoin based webapp in python which takes BTC deposits (New to Bitcoin in general, but want to get involved).
Although I would preferably want to use a different address for each ...
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How to fetch the latest unspent transaction by an address using bitcoind?
I want to build a server, which provide following APIs:
1.Get balance by address.
2.Get latest unspent transaction.
3.broadcast the transaction.
First by first, I know I can do above stuffes by ...
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Why are my Signature Scripts Different from my professors?
bob_addr = "1NWzVg38ggPoVGAG2VWt6ktdWMaV6S1pJk"#"1FMb8Jnn1jSh7yjDFfonC8xCCH3ittoEzB"
bob_hashed_pubkey = base58check.b58decode(bob_addr)[1:]
bob2_hashed_pubkey = b'\xec\x06\xb2\xbf\x18\xc8\x97\x06\...
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bitcoinrpc.authproxy.JSONRPCException: -26: 16: bad-txns-in-belowout
I am getting this exception, when I am using sendrawtransaction. And all I want to do is translate this docs to Python code, and I have searched for a while but both Can anyone shed any light on this ...
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Is it possible to deploy a python script on Ethereum Virtual Network or NEO? [closed]
Is it possible to deploy a python script as a dApp on the Ethereum or NEO virtual network?
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How to generate public and private key pairs from the 12 seed words in python
I basically followed the instructions here How to generate mycelium addresses from the 12 words in python
So my code is similar:
from bip32utils import BIP32Key
from bip32utils import BIP32_HARDEN
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getblockchaininfo timeout using API only
Thanks in advance.
If I call getblockchaininfo through bitcoin-cli it just works. It might take a while but it works all the time.
If I call it from within a Python Script
from bitcoin.rpc import ...
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How to recover wallet by importing private key on testnet?
I want to test the functionality of wallet recovery via private key import on the testnet. Preferably thru an online service.
I only want to test the functionality so that I can verify that it's ...
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What is "Rate" on crypto exchange?
I use bittrex api and python for trading.
I am interesting about lowest Ask and highest Bid prices on the pair.
In this example:
I want to sell XRP on 0.00008215 price and on 0.00008245
What ...
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python bitcoin public key to address code error
import hashlib
b58chars = '123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz'
def hex_open_key_to_hex_hesh160(hex_open_key):
h160 = hashlib.new('ripemd160')
h160.update(hashlib.sha256(('04'+...
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Altcoin - genesis block - TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)
I'm trying to use the genesis script from innova to generate a genesis block of Xevan_hash
https://github.com/innovacoin/GenesisH0/blob/master/genesis.py
I'm using these parameters:
python genesis....
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python-bitcoinlib | Create Private Keys, Public Keys and Addresses - How to Do It?
I'm trying to use the python-bitcoinlib library but its docs aren't entirely clear to me.
I'm a programmer but quite new to Python, and not very versed in the Bitcoin protocol.
What's the process, ...
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bitcoin chainstate database parsing in python giving wrong value
I am trying to decode chainstate db for a specific out index for a transaction in python just for learning.
Transaction ID: 4d4a4c6ca4f3c91e69563199943336d3279fad71c9e8d9c1708ef9dc6ac16000
out index = ...
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ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bitcoin'
Here's my code:
from bitcoin.rpc import RawProxy
# Create a connection to local Bitcoin Core node
p = RawProxy()
# Run the getinfo command, store the resulting data in info
info = p.getinfo()
# ...
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Extract lightning network funding transactions with python bitcoin blockchain parser lib
My ultimate goal is to parse funding transactions (as well as channel closes in a later step) from the blockchain. In order to do so I wanted to start with a funding transaction and disect it. ...
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Electrum Gap Limit from CLI
Is there any way to change wallet gap limit in Electrum from command line? If yes, how? If not, could it be bypassed using some kind of external script? I really need to avoid GUI. Thank you in ...
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How does bitcoin functional test framework work?
Could someone explain how and where in the code the bitcoin test framework calls map to C++ bitcoin core code or RPC calls such that regression suite tests the bitcoin core functionality?
Background ...
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need advice for Python interaction with bitcoin-core wallet
I've read about a few Python libraries that performs JSON-RPC calls to bitcoind. However, not many are actively developed/maintained, nor are they widely used in production environment. Since bitcoind ...
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How to create a p2sh transaction with a scriptsig of OP_true?
How can I create a p2sh transaction with a scriptsig containing OP_TRUE only, removing the need for a digital signature, which will be broadcasted and mined?
Also could some one provide an example of ...
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Pycoin: How to sign SegWit transaction via Pycoin?
My target is to make transaction with unspent transaction outputs(UTXOS).
The information of UTXOs is as follow.
[
{
"pt_idx": 0,
"subaccount": 37,
"ga_asset_id": 1,
"value": "...
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Pycoin: How to send transaction?
There is a problem in making and sending transaction.
I got UTXOS by using API(GreenAddress), and from utxos I made a transaction. But calculated fee is always larger than one in original GA service.
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GreenAddress: Noticfication of receiving transaction
I'm developing python project using greenaddress API. I use pycoin package.
I almost completed, but I can't resolve notification problem.
Using greenaddress API, the notification received is as follow....
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How to set up a private chain/local testnet : reverse engineering the blockchain code
Long story short, I want to set up a private chain/a testnet blockchain that can run locally just to fiddle and play with it just to learn how it works. So I have a general understanding of how things ...
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Project on modelling Bitcoin blockchain data
I am doing a thesis project on modelling Bitcoin blockchain data, but atm I am having trouble getting data from the Bitcoin blockchain into a format that is easy to deal with in e.g. Python.
I have ...
