Bitcoin Tesnet Node: Sending Transactions

Created by Sjors van Heuveln, 1 nov 2021.

HOW TO USE

Run main.py.

To do

1. Learn on fee calculation

   • Calculate sats per byte per transaction and print to console.
   • What is sats/vbyte?

2. Mainnet:

   • Send the Saylor! -> Multiple OP_RETURNS not allowed.

3. UTXO:

   • Make a better UTXO function. So I can see what my address has.
   • Make a class with functions and data.
     • count
     • largest utxo

4. New Tx:

   • Make a BECH32 P2WPKH tx.
     • Spending to is possible already.
     • Spending from not yet -> witness required.
   • What are all the differences?!!!!

Resources

• Jimmy Song's: Programming Bitcoin PDF
• Justmin Moon YouTube
• Justin Moon GitHub
• Bitcoin Wiki

Tools

• Get Testnet coins:
  • Mempool.co
  • CoinfaucetEU