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Title: which format is address in output of bitcoinrpc json Post by: tspacepilot on September 04, 2014, 03:31:58 AM In, for example, block #1 of testnet3, I find this sort of representation for an output address.
n3GNqMveyvaPvUbH469vDRadqpJMPc84JA I know that this is probably a hash of the public key, and I know from looking at the technical specs that there are a number of different representations. Which one is this? Can you point me to the right part of the spec where I can convert something like this to the "normal" address format WIF? Thanks for any pointers. Title: Re: which format is address in output of bitcoinrpc json Post by: DannyHamilton on September 04, 2014, 04:02:08 AM You can find the technical details of how a bitcoin address is created here:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_Bitcoin_addresses You can find a list of commonly used version bytes here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_address_prefixes Since the WIF addresses on testnet use a version byte of 0x6F, they will always start with m or n. Title: Re: which format is address in output of bitcoinrpc json Post by: tspacepilot on September 04, 2014, 04:15:50 AM You can find the technical details of how a bitcoin address is created here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_Bitcoin_addresses You can find a list of commonly used version bytes here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_address_prefixes Since the WIF addresses on testnet use a version byte of 0x6F, they will always start with m or n. Very helpful. If I'm doing this right, the address above is: 3VVW1m5SDnPrf7zG6LAMoyjC751yUgV4KvWDr9aVygwziXA I'm going the leave the thread open in case someone else knows that this ^^^ is obviously wrong :) Title: Re: which format is address in output of bitcoinrpc json Post by: tspacepilot on September 06, 2014, 03:40:10 AM Can anyone with a strong background in this stuff confirm for me that I'm doing this correctly?
Bitcoin testnet block #1 has a coinbase transaction with an output to n3GNqMveyvaPvUbH469vDRadqpJMPc84JA and I just want to be sure that this address, in WIF, is: 3VVW1m5SDnPrf7zG6LAMoyjC751yUgV4KvWDr9aVygwziXA Actually, now that I find this page: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_address_prefixes I'm almost sure I'm doing it wrong. Maybe the n3... version is actually already in WIF. Hmmm. |