[Javascript / Node.js] Detect cryptocoin by address (Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc)

[pocesar]

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!

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

Some cryptocoins have addresses that are the same as Bitcoin's.

[pocesar]

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)

[peapodamus]

Thanks for this! This will be helpful in the many projects I plan to make but have not started yet