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All the other tooling scripts require Python 3, it makes sense to do so here too. Also document the dependency on python3-dnspython.
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# Seeds
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Utility to generate the seeds.txt list that is compiled into the client
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(see [src/chainparamsseeds.h](/src/chainparamsseeds.h) and other utilities in [contrib/seeds](/contrib/seeds)).
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The seeds compiled into the release are created from sipa's DNS seed data, like this:
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curl -s http://bitcoin.sipa.be/seeds.txt > seeds_main.txt
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python3 makeseeds.py < seeds_main.txt > nodes_main.txt
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python3 generate-seeds.py . > ../../src/chainparamsseeds.h
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## Dependencies
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Ubuntu:
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sudo apt-get install python3-dnspython
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