diff --git a/.idea/.gitignore b/.idea/.gitignore
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-# Default ignored files
-/shelf/
-/workspace.xml
diff --git a/.idea/inspectionProfiles/Project_Default.xml b/.idea/inspectionProfiles/Project_Default.xml
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--- a/.idea/inspectionProfiles/Project_Default.xml
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-<component name="InspectionProjectProfileManager">
-  <profile version="1.0">
-    <option name="myName" value="Project Default" />
-    <inspection_tool class="PyPackageRequirementsInspection" enabled="true" level="WARNING" enabled_by_default="true">
-      <option name="ignoredPackages">
-        <value>
-          <list size="16">
-            <item index="0" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="pymongo" />
-            <item index="1" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="cryptoconditions" />
-            <item index="2" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="python-rapidjson" />
-            <item index="3" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="flask-restful" />
-            <item index="4" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="packaging" />
-            <item index="5" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="requests" />
-            <item index="6" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="gunicorn" />
-            <item index="7" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="pyyaml" />
-            <item index="8" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="pytest-runner" />
-            <item index="9" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="bigchaindb-abci" />
-            <item index="10" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="flask-cors" />
-            <item index="11" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="aiohttp" />
-            <item index="12" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="logstats" />
-            <item index="13" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="flask" />
-            <item index="14" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="setproctitle" />
-            <item index="15" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="jsonschema" />
-          </list>
-        </value>
-      </option>
-    </inspection_tool>
-  </profile>
-</component>
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diff --git a/.idea/inspectionProfiles/profiles_settings.xml b/.idea/inspectionProfiles/profiles_settings.xml
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index 105ce2d..0000000
--- a/.idea/inspectionProfiles/profiles_settings.xml
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@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-<component name="InspectionProjectProfileManager">
-  <settings>
-    <option name="USE_PROJECT_PROFILE" value="false" />
-    <version value="1.0" />
-  </settings>
-</component>
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diff --git a/.idea/misc.xml b/.idea/misc.xml
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--- a/.idea/misc.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project version="4">
-  <component name="ProjectRootManager" version="2" project-jdk-name="Python 3.9 (planetmint)" project-jdk-type="Python SDK" />
-  <component name="PyCharmProfessionalAdvertiser">
-    <option name="shown" value="true" />
-  </component>
-</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/modules.xml b/.idea/modules.xml
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index cb0389d..0000000
--- a/.idea/modules.xml
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@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project version="4">
-  <component name="ProjectModuleManager">
-    <modules>
-      <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/.idea/planetmint.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/.idea/planetmint.iml" />
-    </modules>
-  </component>
-</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/planetmint.iml b/.idea/planetmint.iml
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index db87307..0000000
--- a/.idea/planetmint.iml
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@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<module version="4">
-  <component name="PyDocumentationSettings">
-    <option name="format" value="GOOGLE" />
-    <option name="myDocStringFormat" value="Google" />
-  </component>
-  <component name="TestRunnerService">
-    <option name="PROJECT_TEST_RUNNER" value="py.test" />
-  </component>
-</module>
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diff --git a/.idea/vcs.xml b/.idea/vcs.xml
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index 94a25f7..0000000
--- a/.idea/vcs.xml
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@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project version="4">
-  <component name="VcsDirectoryMappings">
-    <mapping directory="$PROJECT_DIR$" vcs="Git" />
-  </component>
-</project>
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