New version and readme

Author: pfeairheller

README.md

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+# A Sparse Merkle Tree for KERI event messages.
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+Project Name:  sparse-kerkle-tree
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+[![PyPi](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/kerkle.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/kerkle/)
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+[![https://pypi.org/project/kerkle/](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/kerkle.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/kerkle/)
+
+## Installation
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+### Local installation - build from source
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+`$ pip install -r requirements.txt`
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+

setup.py

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 setup(
     name='kerkle',
-    version='1.2.0-dev10',  # also change in src/keri/__init__.py
+    version='0.0.1',  # also change in src/keri/__init__.py
     license='Apache Software License 2.0',
     description='A KERI Event Sparse Merkle Tree',
     long_description="Kerkle",

src/__init__.py

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+# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
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+__version__ = '0.0.1'  # also change in setup.py
+