counterparty-lib 9.52.0

Counterparty Protocol Reference Implementation

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# Description counterparty-lib is the reference implementation of the [Counterparty Protocol](https://counterparty.io).

Note: for the command-line interface that used to be called counterpartyd, see [counterparty-cli](https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterparty-cli).

# Requirements * [Patched Bitcoin Core](https://github.com/btcdrak/bitcoin/releases) with the following options set:

` rpcuser=bitcoinrpc rpcpassword=<password> server=1 txindex=1 addrindex=1 rpcthreads=1000 rpctimeout=300 minrelaytxfee=0.00005 limitfreerelay=0 `

# Installation

` $ git clone https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterparty-lib.git $ cd counterparty-lib $ python3 setup.py install `

# Usage

` $ python3 >>> from counterpartylib import server >>> db = server.initialise(<options>) >>> server.start_all(db) `

# Further Reading

• [Official Project Documentation](http://counterparty.io/docs/)