Pretty neat! I wrote and now co-maintain a library that has similar ease-of-use for Bitcoin: https://github.com/ofek/bit
Even fewer LoC :)
How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python
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#12Tell me how to do something worth doing with ETH and I'll be impressed. Cue the intellectualization from "investors."
Is there anything you would like to do that you need ETH for? Are you looking for inspiration or are you looking to talk about use cases that you will never be in the market for?
How do they know what they need ETH for if they don't know what it's actually useful for? I'd be curious what a few of your top "you need ETH for this" cases are.
Re: How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python
#13I wish the software engineering community would stop with the click-bait headlines.
Write a game in 2 lines of Python:
import MonolithicGameSDK
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#14Tell me how to do something worth doing with ETH and I'll be impressed. Cue the intellectualization from "investors."
Does programmatic money not sound exciting to you? I see way more skepticism than support on HN but it surprises me. Can you really not picture any uses for a financial system with Turing completeness?
Re: How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python
#15This is misleading, the code doesn't send the $ETH, it's calling a third party API (infura) to do it
You can do the same with a local client, just call localhost instead of Infura.
You need to install an Ethereum client locally of course, but it’s pretty straightforward.
Re: How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python
#16Tell me how to do something worth doing with ETH and I'll be impressed. Cue the intellectualization from "investors."
Does programmatic money not sound exciting to you? I see way more skepticism than support on HN but it surprises me. Can you really not picture any uses for a financial system with Turing completeness?
I've been playing with programmatic money since selling runescape gold for PayPal dollars. I guess I just need more idk
Re: How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python
#17Tell me how to do something worth doing with ETH and I'll be impressed. Cue the intellectualization from "investors."
Receive ETH, and turn it into dollars.
Tutorials should focus on getting money, not sending it out, if they want to get people's interest.
Re: How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python
#18I wrote a Replit tutorial on sending Ethererum from wallet to wallet in Python. It takes only 19 lines of code and is super easy to set up!
How do you test it? I'd like to test without depending on some remote service, which could be unreliable.
You can connect to the testnet and use the faucet.
Re: How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python
#19With geth you can do it in 2 lines
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#20Tell me how to do something worth doing with ETH and I'll be impressed. Cue the intellectualization from "investors."
Making insane yield (50%-300% apr, depending on the time) on dollars
That’s exactly the problem for me: I’m the kind of person who sees money as “a token to be traded for goods and / or services”, and why would any normal person (ie, not counting crypto investment nerds) want to trade their eth if the most profitable thing to do is to hoard it?