diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 64b00b0..338f462 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .vscode/
 .idea/
-.venv/
+.venv*
 *.log
 .DS_Store
 bitcoin.conf*
diff --git a/common/README.md b/common/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ba2c75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# teos-common
+
+This is a common library for The Eye of Satoshi. It contains classes and methods that are shared by both the tower and
+the clients.
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diff --git a/common/requirements.txt b/common/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..69d672e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+cryptography==2.8
+coincurve
+pyzbase32
+plyvel
diff --git a/watchtower-plugin/requirements.txt b/watchtower-plugin/requirements.txt
index 84ba49d..6f9b5d7 100644
--- a/watchtower-plugin/requirements.txt
+++ b/watchtower-plugin/requirements.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ coincurve
 cryptography==2.8
 pyzbase32
 plyvel
-backoff
\ No newline at end of file
+backoff
+teos-common==0.0.5
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/watchtower-plugin/test_watchtower.py b/watchtower-plugin/test_watchtower.py
index aa15664..05f6a69 100644
--- a/watchtower-plugin/test_watchtower.py
+++ b/watchtower-plugin/test_watchtower.py
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ class TowerMock:
         logging.getLogger("werkzeug").setLevel(logging.ERROR)
         os.environ["WERKZEUG_RUN_MAIN"] = "true"
 
-        # Thread(target=app.run, kwargs={"host": tower_netaddr, "port": tower_port}, daemon=True).start()
-
     def register(self):
         user_id = request.get_json().get("public_key")