Lit 🔥: Litecoin made easy.

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Lit is Python's fastest Litecoin Library based on Bit, a Bitcoin library that was designed from the beginning to feel intuitive, be effortless to use, and have readable source code. It is heavily inspired by Requests and Keras.

Lit is so easy to use, in fact, you can do this:

>>> from bit import Key
>>>
>>> my_key = Key(...)
>>> my_key.get_balance('usd')
'12.51'
>>>
>>> # Let's donate!
>>> outputs = [
>>>     # Wikileaks
>>>     ('1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v', 0.0035, 'btc'),
>>>     # Internet Archive
>>>     ('1Archive1n2C579dMsAu3iC6tWzuQJz8dN', 190, 'jpy'),
>>>     # The Pirate Bay
>>>     ('129TQVAroeehD9fZpzK51NdZGQT4TqifbG', 3, 'eur'),
>>>     # xkcd
>>>     ('14Tr4HaKkKuC1Lmpr2YMAuYVZRWqAdRTcr', 2.5, 'cad')
>>> ]
>>>
>>> my_key.send(outputs)
'9f59f5c6757ec46fdc7440acbeb3920e614c8d1d247ac174eb6781b832710c1c'

Here is the transaction https://blockchain.info/tx/9f59f5c6757ec46fdc7440acbeb3920e614c8d1d247ac174eb6781b832710c1c.

Features

• Python's fastest available implementation (100x faster than closest library)
• Seamless integration with existing server setups
• Supports keys in cold storage
• Fully supports 25 different currencies
• First class support for storing data in the blockchain
• Deterministic signatures via RFC 6979
• Access to the blockchain (and testnet chain) through multiple APIs for redundancy
• Exchange rate API, with optional caching
• Optimal transaction fee API, with optional caching
• Compressed public keys by default
• Multiple representations of private keys; WIF, PEM, DER, etc.
• Standard P2PKH transactions

If you are intrigued, continue reading. If not, continue all the same!

Installation

TODO: Lit is distributed on PyPI as a universal wheel and is available on Linux/macOS and Windows and supports Python 3.5+ and PyPy3.5-v5.7.1+. pip >= 8.1.2 is required.

$ pip install bit

Documentation

The original docs for Bit can be found [here](https://ofek.github.io/bit).

Credits

• Ofek the original author of Bit
• Logo courtesy of https://textcraft.net
• Gregory Maxwell (Bitcoin core dev) for teaching Ofek a bit of ECC math
• arubi in #bitcoin for helping Ofek understand transaction gotchas
• fuzeman for bestowing Ofek the name bit on the Python Package Index