John Small JohnSmall
JohnSmall
/ bitcoin-pay.rb
Created
July 28, 2018 15:36
— forked from Sjors/bitcoin-pay.rb
This script demonstrates how a bitcoin transaction is created and signed. Just pass in your own address and private key and it will prepare a transaction for you. You can then copy & paste that transaction into a webservice like Blockchain to send it. I wrote this mostly to understand better how it works. I sometimes had to "cheat" and look at t…
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| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| require 'open-uri' | |
| require 'JSON' | |
| require 'digest/sha2' | |
| require 'pry' | |
| require 'bigdecimal' | |
| require 'bitcoin' # Because I need to cheat every now and then | |
| # Usage: | |
| # gem install pry json ffi ruby-bitcoin |