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Installation

Example 01 on macOS

1. Install the following

brew install autoconf automake libtool pkgconfig wget
brew install boost
brew install libbitcoin

2. After installation compile code as following: g++ -std=c++11 -o addr addr.cpp $(pkg-config --cflags --libs libbitcoin)

Example 02 Python

Install Miniconda

curl -Ok https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh -b -p ~/anaconda
rm Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh
echo 'export PATH="~/anaconda/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile 

# Refresh basically
source .bash_profile

conda update conda

Use conda to create environment and install requirements:

conda create env -n "name" python=3.6
pip install bitcoin

Example 02 notes

• Python 'bit' vs Python 'bitcoin':
  • 'Bit' stores keys in a compressed manner, every conversion to hex or any other format compresses the key automatically, while 'bitcoin' is uncompressed by nature, and stores the key by 'hex'
  • 'bitcoin' allows decompression
  • 'bit' is an interface of coincurve, which isn't a full implementation of the bitcoin protcol in python