Ha, that's embarrassing... Looks like your unit tests won't work if Bitcoin Core isn't running; maybe they in turn need to check that and disable the test if core isn't available?

Haha, easy to miss!

Erm by bitcoin core do you mean bitcoind running in the background? I haven't actually looked at checking if Bitcoin Core is running, would you mind giving me a pointer? Is there a function in bitcoin.core? I don't immediately see one (I usually just use the rpc and don't fiddle too much with the in-depth bitcoin protocol elements).

Yup. Maybe for now you should just "if False:" out that code unittest code with an explanation; I'll think about a better way to do it later.

Also, rebase your code on the current master; github says it can't be merged as-is.

That should do the trick for now.

Edit: Well that.

Ok, cleaned this up a bit and merged in f1efbfd