PyNode2

Still very green, although contributions are more than welcome

This is a cleanup/rewrite of the pynode written by Jeff Garzik. The goal is to make an easy to work with Bitcoin (or altcoin) node implementation for network analysis in the spirit of Bitnode's getaddr. Working with Python tends to be much quicker/easier than C++ or similar systems languages.

Note that this node implementation isn't designed to be used for real sending/recieving, but more as a malleable tool for education and analysis of the network.

Only Python 2.7 is currently supported due to reliance on Gevent.

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome, my only request at the moment is that you try and code pretty closely to PEP8 standards.

Most tasks on this project will need a pretty good understanding of both Python and Bitcoin internals until there is more documentation.

Running PyNode

For development, setup a virtual enviroment like so:

mkvirtualenv pynode
git clone https://github.com/icook/pynode2
cd pynode2
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .
pynode example.toml

Currently there are no more automated ways to install. This may change if there's interest.

Current Featureset

• Download and synchronize a blockchain (slower than reference wallet)
• Connect to peers using DNS seed nodes
• Multiple network configurations possible (testnet, litecoin, etc)