Blockchain API programming with Python

Blockchain.info is one of the most popular blockchain and bitcoin network explorers and wallet providers. From the web, you can view the block level and see all the transactions that have happened. For example, by going to this particular block—that is, Block #536081—you can see all the transactions, as well as some other information, as shown in the following screenshot:

The following screenshot shows the statistical data (DATA | Stats). This is great, and useful as well; however, for a developer building applications or performing analysis based on this data, it is important to get this data programmatically: ...

Get Hands-On Bitcoin Programming with Python now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.