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python-bitcoinlib | Create Private Keys, Public Keys and Addresses - How to Do It?
Sorry I am not familiar with python-bitcoinlib but if your goal is to just create keys/addresses you can use this library (disclosure: I wrote it) the following way:
Generating a private key
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How can I sign transaction hex with Python library
There is pybitcointools, which allows you to do just that using the sign(tx, index, priv) function.
There are others but I at least found this one the easiest to work with.
EDIT: You have many ...
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python-bitcoinlib | Create Private Keys, Public Keys and Addresses - How to Do It?
Some usage examples are now available in the repository.
This example demonstrates how to generate a key pair, and create a transaction paying to the public key hash (P2WPKH).
There is also the ...
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Should an offline address generated from private key send funds to wallet?
From what I understand, that address is created from my private key, so shouldn't the funds I send to it go straight back to my wallet?
Unless you told your wallet to expect transactions sent to that ...
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Keep getting wrong bitcoin addresses
Some key points here:
The private key cannot reach 2**256 because you must respect the order of the curve, which is n = 0xfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffebaaedce6af48a03bbfd25e8cd0364141. Set the ...
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Why do I have a socket.timeout with python-bitcoinlib?
Change the timeout inside the file bitcoin.conf or when you start the bitcoind,
This is an example
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## bitcoin.conf configuration file. Lines beginning with # are comments.
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I am trying to convert the 12 words into BTC addresses, but they do not match
For P2PKH, you've hashed the private key rather than the public key.
For P2SH, you've hashed the public key and used the P2SH version number, however that is not what a P2SH address should be. Rather ...
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Recreate Java code in python
I have a java code that I need to pass to python
Unless the same library has been ported to both languages, there will probably be no direct equivalent.
Instead it will probably be best to describe ...
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Invalid transaction. Error: TX decode failed. Make sure the tx has at least one input
I figured it out, I simply was missing a step. I wasn't signing my transaction before sending.
>>> t.sign('my_private_key')
>>> res = srv.sendrawtransaction(t.raw_hex())
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Does python-bitcoinlib and the Bitcoin Core functional test framework share code? Were changes ever pushed down/upstream?
script.py of the Bitcoin Core functional test framework contains a comment that it was initially modified from python-bitcoinlib.
There doesn't appear to have been any code sharing beyond that and ...
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What is the Best Way to Learn python-bitcoinlib?
Official documentations provides several examples.
https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib/tree/master/examples
project1 of Stanford cs251 guide you through P2PKH, atomic swap, etc.
https://...
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