worth it's weight in bitcoin.
rn working on figuring out how to use python-bitcoinlib to access bitcoin core's JSON-RPC for regtest network
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figured it out. learned much more than I anticipated, alot about bitcoin.conf
but then the python code to specify the network you want is simple:
import bitcoin
from bitcoin.rpc import RawProxy
bitcoin.SelectParams("regtest")
# Create a connection to local Bitcoin Core node (regtest)
p = RawProxy()
info = p.getblockchaininfo()
print(info["blocks"])
here is a simple config file
$ cat ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
regtest=1
txindex=1
[regtest]
wallet=/home/j/.bitcoin/regtest/wallets/j-regtest
I use Vim. here is a remap I use a lot
vnoremap