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Re:Show HN: Bit v0.5.0 – Bitcoin made easy, now with SegWit ... by aboutruby on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:31AM (#19420225)
Seems more of an meta-APIs library:

- bitcoinfees.earn.com for the fees

- bitpay.com (then blockchain.info if bitpay fails) for the rates

- bitpay / smartbit.com / blockchain for balance and transactions

- And then a lot of functions mainly used to create transactions it seems (I'm not a bitcoin expert)

(utils might the common denominator of all software projects :) ) (also the repetition of methods made me think of "define_method" in ruby)

Pretty solid project! And great name IMHO, people will just google "bit github" (pretty hard to find a unique meaningful name these days), you even got the name in pypi: https://pypi.org/project/bit.

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Re:Show HN: Bit v0.5.0 – Bitcoin made easy, now with SegWit ... by solidasparagus on Monday March 18, 2019 @11:20AM (#19421786)
The name is cool, but not great in the age of Google. I would suggest also having a slightly longer name that is more unique - the way that the Go programming language has 'Golang'.
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