transactions: Bitcoin for Humans

transactions is a small python library to easily create and push transactions to the bitcoin network.

Installation

$ pip install transactions

Examples

Assuming the following cast of characters:

>>> alice = 'mhyCaF2HFk7CVwKmyQ8TahgVdjnHSr1pTv'
>>> bob = 'mqXz83H4LCxjf2ie8hYNsTRByvtfV43Pa7'
>>> carol = 'mtWg6ccLiZWw2Et7E5UqmHsYgrAi5wqiov'

Moving 10000 satoshis from alice to bob:

>>> from transactions import Transactions
>>> transactions = Transactions(testnet=True)
>>> tx = transactions.create(alice, (bob, 10000))
>>> tx_signed = transactions.sign(tx, 'alice master secret')
>>> transactions.push(tx_signed)

Moving 600 satoshis from bob to carol with a custom op_return:

>>> tx = transactions.create(bob, (carol, 600), op_return='HELLOFROMASCRIBE')
>>> tx_signed = transactions.sign(tx, 'bob master secret')
>>> transactions.push(tx_signed)

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With transactions all amounts are in satoshi and we currently only support BIP32 wallets (hierarchical deterministic wallets, aka "HD Wallets").

Documentation

https://transactions.readthedocs.org/

Contributing

Pull requests, feedback, and suggestions are welcome. Issues and pull requests are handled via github.

Background

This was developed by ascribe GmbH as part of the overall ascribe technology stack. https://www.ascribe.io

Copyright

This code is © 2015 ascribe GmbH.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.