Jean RousseauThe Python pyflakes library is among the top 100 Python libraries, with more than 15,305,043 downloads. This article will show you everything you need to get this installed in your Python environment. Library Link How to Install pyflakes on Windows? Type “cmd” in the search bar and hit Enter to open the command line. Type … Read more
Is Python still an attractive niche to be in as a coder? And what about in the decade to come given that the programming industry undergoes rapid changes? This article will give you answers to those questions. In short, the top 14 profitable career paths for Python coders are: After reading this article, you’ll have … Read more
Blockchains penetrate into every single field in computer science. Fields such as borrowing, lending, web3, crypto gaming, NFTs, DAOs, trading — to mention just a few — experience a rapid growth in recent years. Both developers and users flock to decentralized, open, permissionless protocols: Blockchains. The exploding interest in Blockchain development brings opportunity to coders … Read more
Quick Fix: Python raises the ImportError: No module named ‘pytest’ when it cannot find the library pytest. The most frequent source of this error is that you haven’t installed pytest explicitly with pip install pytest. Alternatively, you may have different Python versions on your computer, and pytest is not installed for the particular version you’re … Read more
Quick Fix: Python raises the ImportError: No module named ‘pip’ when it cannot find the library pip. The most frequent source of this error is that you haven’t installed pip. Alternatively, you may have different Python versions on your computer, and pip is not installed for the particular version you’re using. I have compiled the … Read more
What regular expressions can be used to match Bitcoin addresses? A regular expression for validating Bitcoin addresses must check that the string is 26-35 characters long, start with “1” or “3” or “bc1” consists of uppercase or lowercase alphabetic and numeric characters, and ensure it doesn’t contain ambiguous characters. Not allowed are the uppercase letter … Read more
A recent Binance Research study shows that approximately 95% of all Bitcoin holders are men. Redistribution of Wealth to Men When reading the Bitcoin whitepaper and the transformation towards a new decentralized, digital monetary system, I realized that we’re in the middle of one of the greatest redistributions of wealth and power in the last … Read more
This article is not investment advice but the personal opinion of the author. The capital value of any discussed investment can fluctuate, and the price can go down as well as up and is not guaranteed. Step 1: Use Bitcoin as Your Personal Treasury Reserve Asset? As a response to the stock market crisis 2008 … Read more
Do you want to analyze and plot the data of Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Cardano (ADA) and other cryptocurrencies but you don’t know where to find a reliable data source? I had the same problem a couple of hours ago when writing a Python script to plot the relative price of altcoins versus BTC. This … Read more
The last 100 years have been economically dominated by corporations. Corporations have brought us health, wealth, and wisdom. Corporations organized the invention and distribution of drugs that saved billions of lives. Corporations took care of automation and efficiency gains and subsequently made billions of people live lives in prosperity and wealth — an average worker … Read more
Bitcoin capital expenditure and energy overhead are often criticized to be unsustainably high. But are they worth it in relation to the value provided by the Bitcoin network? TLDR; Capex and energy costs are estimated using the USD value of the transaction fees paid by the Bitcoin traders. The value of the Bitcoin monetary system … Read more
Problem Formulation Given a single Bitcoin address in the form of a stream of characters such as the address of the first “Genesis” block ever created on the Bitcoin blockchain: 12c6DSiU4Rq3P4ZxziKxzrL5LmMBrzjrJX How to get all transactions for this BTC address in a Python script? Solution To get all transactions of a given Bitcoin address, import … Read more