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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Altcoin Discussion => Topic started by: pocesar on July 29, 2013, 02:07:58 PM



Title: [Javascript / Node.js] Detect cryptocoin by address (Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc)
Post by: pocesar on July 29, 2013, 02:07:58 PM
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Detects which cryptcoin is the given cryptocoin address (starts with some coins listed in CoinWarz.com that have working block explorers)

This isn't by any means accurate, it's a quick & dirty check, you have to resolve any conflicts by yourself.

The addresses are checked using base58Check native module (currently doesn't work on Windows, so it's shim'ed)

https://github.com/pocesar/node-detect-cryptocoin

supports out-of-box:

  • Bitcoin
  • Noirbits
  • Terracoin
  • Krugercoin
  • Bottlecaps
  • Fastcoin
  • Digital Coin
  • BBQCoin
  • Bitbar
  • Novacoin
  • Litecoin
  • Worldcoin
  • Feathercoin
  • Franko
  • Mincoin
  • Stablecoin
  • Megacoin
  • PPCoin
  • Hypercoin
  • Freicoin
  • Alphacoin
  • Namecoin
  • Ixcoin
  • Devcoin
  • Primecoin

Feedback and bugs leave in this thread or open an issue on github!


Title: Re: [Javascript / Node.js] Detect cryptocoin by address (Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc)
Post by: Remember remember the 5th of November on July 29, 2013, 03:19:02 PM
Some cryptocoins have addresses that are the same as Bitcoin's.


Title: Re: [Javascript / Node.js] Detect cryptocoin by address (Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc)
Post by: pocesar on July 29, 2013, 03:36:16 PM
Some cryptocoins have addresses that are the same as Bitcoin's.

yup, that's why I added the 'conflict' member of the result of the function, so you might resolve the conflicts by yourself (either by querying a block explorer or the daemon directly)


Title: Re: [Javascript / Node.js] Detect cryptocoin by address (Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc)
Post by: peapodamus on July 29, 2013, 06:46:08 PM
Thanks for this! This will be helpful in the many projects I plan to make but have not started yet :P