bitpeer.py - Bitcoin protocol and node

A pure Python3 bitcoin protocol and node implementation with pycoin.

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Features

• Bitcoin protocol data serialization / deserialization
• Customizable clients for single node connections
• Network support for different coins (bitcoin, namecoin, litecoin)
• Customizable node:
  • DNS seed bootstrap
  • Multiple connections
  • Mempool and transaction broadcast
  • Automatic syncronization with storage capabilities (the storage abstraction allows different storage types)
  • Storage types: shelve and memory
  • Peer reconnection handling

Getting started

To install bitpeer.py, use pip (recommended method) or easy_install::

	pip3 install bitpeer.py

Or if pip is an alias of pip3:

	pip install bitpeer.py

Examples

Some samples are available in samples directory.