© Karan Singh Garewal 2020
K. S. GarewalPractical Blockchains and Cryptocurrencieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5893-4_17

17. Helium Wallet Construction

Karan Singh Garewal1 
(1)
Toronto, ON, Canada
 

Introduction

In this chapter, we will examine the construction of Helium wallets. In particular, we discuss the following topics:
  1. 1.

    What is a wallet

     
  2. 2.

    The Helium wallet interface

     
  3. 3.

    Helium wallet program code

     
  4. 4.

    Helium wallet Pytest code

     

The Bitcoin reference wallet implementation relies upon access to the complete Bitcoin blockchain. Similarly, any Helium node that has the complete Helium blockchain or has access to this blockchain can create and maintain a wallet.

This chapter creates a basic command-line Helium wallet that implements core functionality. ...

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