Pity: Peercoin made easy

Forked from Ofek's awesome Bit library.

Pity is based on Bit, the Python's fastest Bitcoin library and was designed from the beginning to feel intuitive, be effortless to use, and have readable source code.

Pity is so easy to use, in fact, you can do this:

    >>> from bit import Key
    >>>
    >>> my_key = Key(wif="...")
    >>> my_key.get_balance('eur')
    '12.51'
    >>> # Let's pity the fool! Umm,... Let's donate!
    >>> outputs = [
    >>>     # the Peercoin Foundation
    >>>     ('p92W3t7YkKfQEPDb7cG9jQ6iMh7cpKLvwK', 10, 'usd'),
    >>>     # Beer for willy, PeerExplorer <https://peercoinexplorer.net/charts/>
    >>>     ('PA3VZmupxdsX5TuS1PyXZPsbbhZGT2htPz', 3, 'eur')
    >>> ]
    >>>
    >>> my_key.send(outputs)
    '1da615c003bb1bd98354378fa5e95287993dab152d876fa0cc3980566ce6d7ee'

Features

• Python's fastest available implementation (100x faster than closest library)
• Seamless integration with existing server setups
• Supports keys in cold storage
• Fully supports 25 different currencies
• First class support for storing data in the blockchain
• Deterministic signatures via RFC 6979
• Access to the blockchain (and testnet chain) through multiple APIs for redundancy
• Exchange rate API, with optional caching
• Optimal transaction fee API, with optional caching
• Compressed public keys by default
• Multiple representations of private keys; WIF, PEM, DER, etc.
• Legacy P2PKH and Segwit nested-P2WPKH transactions
• Legacy P2SH and Segwit nested-P2WSH transactions

If you are intrigued, continue reading. If not, continue all the same!

Installation

Bit is distributed on PyPI as a universal wheel and is available on Linux/macOS and Windows and supports Python 3.5+ and PyPy3.5-v5.7.1+.

pip >= 8.1.2 is required.

$ pip install pity

Documentation

Docs are hosted by Github Pages and are automatically built and published by Travis after every successful commit to Bit's master branch.

Credits

• ofek for the original bit codebase.
• backpacker for help with the porting.
• Additional