Segwit backend support (no new functionality)

This update is to support correct parsing for segwit, the Joinmarket implementation does not yet use the new segwit-based calls. Needed for downstream.

See the release note for v0.2.0 for relevant comments on installation, binaries.

Minor code update

Minor code update (support for external calls, support for message signing in the wallet).

See the previous release note (v0.2.0) for relevant comments on installation, binaries.

First release.

This is not really, of course, the first release, but the first one after some real use and testing picked up a few missing features or bugs, so I consider it ready to use.

This is not a release with binaries (specifically, Qt binaries for joinmarket-qt for Windows and Linux). The existing binaries in the previous release (scroll down the releases page or click here) should still be functional. Binaries will be rebuilt when there is a new major release or when something important changes, subject to the constraints of time.

See the instructions here for how to install for the first time or how to upgrade.

Thanks to @eduard6 for considerable help in testing and edits.

For testing

Support single join (sendpayment), direct send, multi join (tumbler), abort, restart.

Functionality basically complete.

Release is for binaries (specifically joinmarket-qt) built on Ubuntu, testing on other Linuces would be appreciated.

Scripts can be run from scripts directory (sendpayment.py, tumbler.py, wallet-tool.py), explanation in scripts README.md file, functionality largely the same as main repo except for use of 'schedule' files.

joinmarket-qt.py is also in scripts/, can be run this way instead of binary, needs PyQt4.

Updated: added Windows binaries, again testing very much appreciated (note you may need to install the msvc2013 runtime from here, and you may have to enable the application to access ports for IRC).

Update 2: added *-debian32 binaries for TAILS, tested on TAILS 2.6. Note that neither blockr (as is known they now captcha Tor) nor bc.i (from minimal testing) blockchain interfaces work. It can work with electrum-server set in the blockchain_source field but may require multiple attempts or setting a known-good electrum server. Hence, this is not very usable but please feel free to try or test (use torify ./joinmarket-qt-debian32).