November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
13h 21m
English
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BitcoinJ installation
For this section, we will use BitcoinJ, which is a Java library designed to interact with the bitcoin network with support for BIP 70 (https://bitcoinj.github.io/payment-protocol). In order to make things simpler, we will install Maven's BitcoinJ plugin (version 0.14.17). If you're not a Java developer, Maven is a build automation tool for Java projects, used to download the dependencies required for a project.
Open Eclipse and create a new Maven project via File | New | Other… | Maven | Maven a wizard instructions to finish the creation process (further instructions about setting up a Maven project are presented in Chapter 6, Blockchain-Based Futures System). Once the project is created, browse to the ...
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