Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that's changing the face of online payments. This book will help you understand everything related to Bitcoin architecture. By the end, you'll be able to mine Bitcoins, accept Bitcoin payments, and work with the basics of Blockchain technology to create simple distributed ledgers.Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Bitcoin -- Introduction to bitcoin and blockchains -- What is bitcoin? -- Uses of bitcoin -- What is a blockchain? -- Attributes of bitcoin and blockchain -- Getting a bitcoin wallet -- The different forms of bitcoin wallet -- Getting and sending bitcoins -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Programming Bitcoin and Blockchain with Python -- Programming bitcoin with Python -- Pi Bitcoin tools library -- How to generate private keys and public keys -- Creating a multisignature bitcoin address -- Blockchain API programming with Python -- Installing the Blockchain.info Python library -- Getting bitcoin exchange rates from Blockchain.info -- Statistics -- Block explorer methods -- Learning to mine bitcoin -- How to mine bitcoin -- Increasing difficulty in mining bitcoin -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Earning Bitcoin Programmatically -- Accepting bitcoin on your website -- Introduction to BitPay -- How to generate a bitcoin payment button -- How to add a bitcoin payment button to your website -- Building and releasing bitcoin-enabled APIs -- 21.co marketplace -- 21.co SDK -- Selling microservices on the 21.co marketplace -- Building a bitcoin trading bot -- Triggering the bitcoin trade advice alert -- How to get a current bid and asking price for bitcoin -- The triggering of buy bitcoin -- The triggering of sell bitcoin -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Bitcoin Data Analysis -- Manipulating and visualizing bitcoin price data -- Getting set up for data analysis -- Getting, reading in, and cleaning bitcoin price data -- DataFrame -- Data cleanup -- Setting the index to the Date column -- Exploring, manipulating, and visualizing the cleaned-up data -- Data visualization -- Exploring bitcoin transaction graphs.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Bitcoin -- Introduction to bitcoin and blockchains -- What is bitcoin? -- Uses of bitcoin -- What is a blockchain? -- Attributes of bitcoin and blockchain -- Getting a bitcoin wallet -- The different forms of bitcoin wallet -- Getting and sending bitcoins -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Programming Bitcoin and Blockchain with Python -- Programming bitcoin with Python -- Pi Bitcoin tools library -- How to generate private keys and public keys -- Creating a multisignature bitcoin address -- Blockchain API programming with Python -- Installing the Blockchain.info Python library -- Getting bitcoin exchange rates from Blockchain.info -- Statistics -- Block explorer methods -- Learning to mine bitcoin -- How to mine bitcoin -- Increasing difficulty in mining bitcoin -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Earning Bitcoin Programmatically -- Accepting bitcoin on your website -- Introduction to BitPay -- How to generate a bitcoin payment button -- How to add a bitcoin payment button to your website -- Building and releasing bitcoin-enabled APIs -- 21.co marketplace -- 21.co SDK -- Selling microservices on the 21.co marketplace -- Building a bitcoin trading bot -- Triggering the bitcoin trade advice alert -- How to get a current bid and asking price for bitcoin -- The triggering of buy bitcoin -- The triggering of sell bitcoin -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Bitcoin Data Analysis -- Manipulating and visualizing bitcoin price data -- Getting set up for data analysis -- Getting, reading in, and cleaning bitcoin price data -- DataFrame -- Data cleanup -- Setting the index to the Date column -- Exploring, manipulating, and visualizing the cleaned-up data -- Data visualization -- Exploring bitcoin transaction graphs