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python-bitcoinlib

Python3 library providing an easy interface to the Bitcoin data structures and protocol.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

python-bitcoinlib has 365K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 0.12.2, first published in 2014.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a copyleft license, last released in Jun 2023.

It is used by 25 tracked packages, including synapse, pyln-testing and cert-issuer.

Downloads
Day
12.4K
Week
83.3K
Month
365.3K
Stars
1.9K
Forks
644
Issues
36
Version
0.12.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
74
Adoption
65
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
479 days ago
Monthly downloads
365,344
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
• At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
365,344
Stars
1,947
Stars per 1k downloads
5.33
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
11,907
Month daily avg
12,178
Momentum
-2.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
• Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later (LGPLv3+)
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
• Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
1129 days ago
Total releases
20
Releases/year
1.6
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
• Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
87
Monthly downloads
365,344
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
79
 
Issue Burden
18.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
650d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 6.8K
macOS 56
Windows 50

Python Versions

3.12
37.9% 2.4K
3.13
30.4% 2.0K
3.11
19.8% 1.3K
3.14
8.4% 542
3.10
3.5% 226

Top Countries

1. US US
6.3K
2. SG SG
147
3. DE DE
108
4. IE IE
61
5. BR BR
38
6. CN CN
32
7. FI FI
30
8. CA CA
24
9. SE SE
24
10. HK HK
23

Package Information

License
GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later (LGPLv3+)
First Release
May 12, 2014
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.12.2
Total Releases
20
Contributors
87
Open PRs
23
Archived
No
Wheels
py3
Keywords
bitcoin
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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