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With the release of piston 0.4.3a0 and python-steem 0.4.3, the library and command line application now support the interaction with the GOLOS network.

## Changes

The changes required can be summarized to:

* Added GOLOS' chain-id to allow proper signing of transactions
* Modify some of the Operations to also distinguish network prefixes
* Add a way to distinguish keys in different networks
* Some minor differences in the API

## How to use piston

You can install piston using `pip3` (the package manager for python3):

    pip3 install --user --upgrade steem-piston==0.4.3a0


This will install piston 0.4.3a0 and pysteem 0.4.3.
After that, you need to set the default node to an API that works on GOLOS:

    piston set node wss://ws.golos.io

Now, piston (and pysteem) are setup to connect to GOLOS, you can check by running

    piston balance golos

To add your own account, you can either use

    piston addkey  (and provide a raw wif key), or
    piston importaccount <accountname>   (and provide the password to your account - owner key won't be stored by default)

More information about available calles be be found via

    piston --help

or on [the official piston.rocks webpage](http://piston.rocks).

## How to use pysteem

If you want to use the library with GOLOS (instead of STEEM) you can either change the default node via `piston set node x` (as described above) or do so programatically:

```python
from steem import Steem
golos = Steem('wss://ws.golos.io')
```

More documentation about how to use the library can be found on it's own [documentation webpage](http://pysteem.com).

Now, have fun!