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Developer Interface
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The Bigchain class is the top-level API for BigchainDB. If you want to create and initialize a BigchainDB database, you create a Bigchain instance (object). Then you can use its various methods to create transactions, write transactions (to the object/database), read transactions, etc.

.. autoclass:: bigchaindb.Bigchain
   :members:

   .. automethod:: bigchaindb.core.Bigchain.__init__