## Repository

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[beem](https://github.com/holgern/beem) is a python library and command line tool for HIVE.  The current version is 0.24.15.

There is also a discord channel for beem: https://discord.gg/4HM592V

The newest beem version can be installed by:

```
pip install -U beem
```

Check that you are using hive nodes. The following command 

```
beempy updatenodes --hive
```

updates the nodelist and uses only hive nodes. After setting hive as default_chain, `beempy updatenodes` can be used.

The list of nodes can be checked with

```
beempy config
```

and

```
beempy currentnode
```

shows the currently connected node.

## Changelog for 0.24.15
* Add diff_match_patch dependency again, as the difflib implementation does not work

## Changelog for 0.24.14
* Add option add_tor to config storage, which allows it to use beempy in tails
* Switch from pyyaml to ruamel.yaml
* Remove Events requirements, beem.notify and beemapi.websocket, as it is not well tested and there are no websocket api nodes available on hive
* Remove unnecessary requirements (pylibscrypt and future)
* add new node (fin.hive.3speak.co) and change change rpc.esteem.app to rpc.ecency.com
* Replace diff_match_patch by difflib and add unit tests
* Increase timeout and retry count in beempy
* Remove obsolete replace_hive_by_steem parameter
* skip_account_check added to account.transfer and account.transfer_to_vesting

## Reduce dependencies
The `pylibscrypt`, `future` and `diff_match_patch` dependency has been removed and `pyyaml` was replaced by `ruamel.yaml`.

## `skip_account_check` can speed up `transfer` and `transfer_to_vesting`
When setting `skip_account_check=True` the receiver account name is not checked for validity. This reduced the number of API-calls when broadcasting a lot of transfers.

## The `use_tor` config can be set to True for using beem in Tails

[Tails](https://tails.boum.org/index.de.html) is a secure portable operating system that can be started from any PC with USB. 

Changing the account keys of a Hive account can only be done with the owner key. Thus, this key needs to be protected from leaking. Broadcasting the account_update operation from Tails could increase security and protect the owner key.

It is possible to activate tor by:
```
beempy set use_tor true
```
so that beempy can be used in [Tails](https://tails.boum.org/index.de.html).

You need to set an administrator password on startup and install the following packages in the root terminal:
```
apt install build-essential libssl-dev python3-appdirs python3-click-plugins python3-dev python3-future python3-pip python3-pretty-yaml python3-prettytable python3-pycryptodome python3-pytest-runner python3-ruamel.yaml python3-scrypt python3-setuptools python3-websocket
```

and download the following tar.xz files with the Tor-Browser:
* click-shell from [pypi](https://pypi.org/project/click-shell/#files)
* beem from [pypi](https://pypi.org/project/beem/#files)
* diff_match_patch fro [pypi](https://pypi.org/project/diff-match-patch/#files)

This is necessary as a `pip install` do now work in Tails.

You need to unpack them with `tar xvzf file.tar.gz` and do a 
```
python setup.py install --user
```
inside the unpacked directory using a terminal. 
This has to be done at first with click-shell, diff_match_pach and then with beem.

The beempy command can be started with
```
~/.local/bin/beempy
```

After doing
```
~/.local/bin/beempy set use_tor true
```
everything should be working.

I will prepare a more detailed instruction for how to use beempy in Tails.

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