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Bitcoin/PostgreSQL bridge

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Bridge between Bitcoin and PostgreSQL.

Coinbridge connects the Bitcoin daemon (bitcoind) and a local PostgreSQL database. It listens for transaction confirmations and automatically updates a transactions table in your database.

Includes a “payment” method which uses free, instant Bitcoin transfers between accounts in the same wallet, and standard Bitcoin transactions otherwise. Also includes a comprehensive wrapper for Bitcoin’s JSON-RPC functionality.

Coinbridge has been tested with Bitcoin, but it should work for any altcoin that shares Bitcoin’s RPC command suite (i.e., most of them). To add a different coin, enter the new coin’s information into coinbridge/data/coins.json. For wallet listener functionality, you also need to create a coinbridge/newcoin-listen script with newcoin-cli (or newcoind) in place of bitcoin-cli, and point the new coin’s walletnotify to this script in newcoin’s configuration file.

Bitcoin: 1CjevDn76Yg5TsEZLkbKy2A6g5hYPE3gAG

Installation

$ pip install coinbridge

Depending on your system, compiling Bitcoin from scratch can be a headache. On Ubuntu, you can simply install bitcoind from the bitcoin PPA:

$ apt-get install python-software-properties
$ add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install bitcoind

A convenience script, init.sh, is included that will do some initial configuration for you. I have only tested this on Ubuntu 12.04/14.04 so far. The below steps are only necessary if init.sh does not work for you:

  1. Set up a pgpass file so transaction confirmations can be autologged to Postgres. Replace HOST, PORT, USER, DATABASE, PASSWORD with your own settings. Note: coinbridge/db.py expects the username to be coinbridge. If you use a different username, you must also create a coinbridge/data/pg.cfg file (containing the HOST:PORT:USER:DATABASE:PASSWORD string) so that Python can connect to Postgres.

    $ touch ~/.pgpass
    $ echo HOST:PORT:USER:DATABASE:PASSWORD >> ~/.pgpass
    $ chmod 600 ~/.pgpass
  2. Set environment variables:

    $ echo "export BRIDGE=/path/to/coinbridge" >> ~/.profile
    $ echo "export PGPASSFILE=$HOME/.pgpass" >> ~/.profile
    $ source ~/.profile
  3. Finally, you need to point Bitcoin’s walletnotify at coinbridge/bitcoin-listen:

    $ apt-get install jq
    $ echo "walletnotify=$BRIDGE/coinbridge/bitcoin-listen %s" >> ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf

Usage

from coinbridge import Bridge

bridge = Bridge()
bridge.payment(from_account, to_account, amount)

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