A small Bitcoin library that's delightfully easy to read and easy to use.

Key Features:

• Create a wallet to manage your keys
• Generate keys and addresses (P2PKH, P2SH, Bech32, xpub)
• Generate mnemonics
• Great documentation

Todo:

• RPC: query a full Bitcoin node
• Create and sign a Bitcoin transaction
• Create a Lightning invoice
• Decode a Lightning invoice
• Open a LN channel
• Create and sign a Lightning transaction

With Bitcoin Lantern you can do things such as

from bitcoinlantern.bitcoin.wallet import Wallet, Mnemonic, Address

w = Wallet()


address = w.createBech32() # by default the public key is compressed and the address is for mainnet


address.string()
'bc1qh5j2qju2g2rpcvea4yjmdzvgqlmhjdg4sw9k9a'


address.private_key()
'Kwz5z5cqLkr46PZeJQuZhTeNbRQ7LMpBmkQ9dgKfBNedJh14ZLMv'


address.mnemonic	
'mad gun cart mix random nasty suffer snake change beyond liberty maid monster tip ritual alone among hurdle fresh trap curious fan monster decrease'


address.type
'Bech32'

This python library will run on all platforms that have the following:
Python 3 Pip

pip install bitcoinlantern

alternatively:

pip3 install bitcoinlantern

Coming soon 😬.

Simply add bitcoinlantern to your requirements.txt file

Please read CONTRIBUTE.md for details on how you can contribute.

Leon Johnson - I run the Advancing Bitcoin Conference and website.

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

• @jimmysong whose Programming Bitcoin (pb-exercises) code is the basis of the elliptic curve functionality.
• Everyone downloading this code