Description

counterparty-lib is the reference implementation of the Counterparty Protocol.

Note: for the command-line interface that used to be called counterpartyd, see counterparty-cli.

Requirements

• Patched Bitcoin Core 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