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+
+Issue tracker is **ONLY** used for reporting bugs, features and enhancements. NO SUPPORT TICKETS ACCEPTED! Use [stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com) for supporting issues.
+
+## Expected Behavior
+
+
+## Actual Behavior
+
+
+## Steps to Reproduce the Problem
+<!--- Provide a link to a live example, or an unambiguous set of steps to -->
+<!--- reproduce this bug. Include code to reproduce, if relevant -->
+
+  1.
+  1.
+  1.
+
+## Specifications
+
+  - Version:
+  - Platform:
+  - Subsystem:
+
+## Possible Solution
+<!--- Not obligatory, but suggest a fix/reason for the bug, -->
+<!--- Not obligatory, but suggest an idea for implementing addition or change -->
+
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+# general things to ignore
+build/
+dist/
+*.egg-info/
+*.egg
+*.py[cod]
+__pycache__/
+.pytest_cache
+*.so
+*.o
+*.orig
+
+*~
+
+#Copy of libskycoin.h in pyskycoin
+swig/include/libskycoin.h
+
+#Just for testing outside tox
+tests/mytest.py
+
+# due to using tox and pytest
+.tox
+.cache
+
+*.swp
+*.swo
+