haskoin-core-0.3.0: Implementation of the core Bitcoin protocol features.

Haskoin is a package implementing the core functionalities of the Bitcoin protocol specifications. The following features are provided:

• Hashing functions (sha-256, ripemd-160)
• Base58 encoding
• BIP32 extended key derivation and parsing (m1'2/3)
• BIP39 mnemonic keys
• ECDSA cryptographic primitives (using the C library libsecp256k1)
• Script parsing and evaluation
• Building and signing of standard transactions (regular, multisig, p2sh)
• Parsing and manipulation of all Bitcoin protocol types
• Bloom filters and partial merkle tree library (used in SPV wallets)
• Comprehensive test suite

A wallet implementation is available in haskoin-wallet which uses both this package and the node implementation in haskoin-node.