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Hands-On Bitcoin Programming with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789537000
Length 90 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Harish Garg Harish Garg
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Getting Started with Bitcoin

This chapter focuses on bitcoin, its features, and how can we take part in the bitcoin ecosystem. The bitcoin ecosystem runs by its users getting, spending, and sending bitcoin wallets. In order to understand the concepts of this chapter, you should have at least a basic understanding of the command line on the computer you're using, and you should have Python 3.x installed on your computer.

In this chapter, we will look at the following topics:

  • Introducing bitcoin and its features
  • Introducing blockchain
  • Attributes of bitcoin and blockchain
  • How to get a bitcoin wallet
  • The different forms of bitcoin wallet including getting, sending, and spending
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