A library for interacting with Bitcoin and Litecoin (and possibly more similar cryptocurrencies in the future)

• Abstract all the commonalities of these cryptocurrencies and parameterize functions with the name of the network in question.
• Use simple data structures such as bytes, str, list and dict instead of class.
• Be easy to translate into other languages.
• Have as few dependencies as possible.
• Be a central point of failure, but don't fail.
• Be functional.
• Abstract all 3rd party code
• Test everything.

MIT

To develop or experiment with litcoin, we recommend using virtual environments.

Create and initalize a virtual environment:

virtualenv -p python3 venv . venv/bin/activate 

Install pytest:

pip3 install pytest 

Build:

./setup.py build 

Run Tests:

pytest 

Install:

pip install . 

Creating keys and addresses

>>> from litcoin.address import make_p2pkh_address >>> from litcoin.ec import make_privkey, derive_pubkey >>> privkey = make_privkey() >>> privkey b'\xc5\xaeYw\xf5\x9e\xa9-\x9a\x11\x88Vd5\xccg/<\xae\xa6e\xbf\x85\xa2\xfb\x92=\xe8:\xe0$\x0e' >>> pubkey = derive_pubkey(privkey) >>> laddr = make_p2pkh_address(pubkey, network='litecoin') >>> baddr = make_p2pkh_address(pubkey, network='bitcoin') >>> laddr 'LL8SyH86F6SeKZPDBWDYpFcQg4v775yG9v' >>> baddr '1uVi4pGASCb4kh41NEFYEYeTrYpyhfULL'