AdamFerguson / bitcoinlib-workshop

Bitcoinlib Workshop

Working with bitcoinlib

Slides can be found here

Getting Started

1. Install Python 3 on your system

2. Install virtualenv to keep the workshop dependencies isolated from the rest of your system.

pip install virtualenv

3. Create a virtualenv

virtualenv .venv

4. Activate the virtualenv (Note: this will need to be done anytime you come back to this repo)

source .venv/bin/activate

5. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

6. Copy bitcoin-sample.conf to bitcoin.conf and tweak the settings to connect to your own bitcoin node

cp bitcoin-sample.conf bitcoin.conf

7. Start up Jupyter

jupyter notebook

8. In the web browser, open bitcoinlib.ipynb and begin working!