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Understanding Bitcoin Transactions

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Re: Understanding Bitcoin Transactions

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Post by malvosenior »

TekMol wrote: post #3

I would love to see a tutorial on how to create a bitcoin address (a private + public key pair) with nothing but command line tools that are available in a standard Linux distribution.

If you want to read about something really interesting, check out hierarchical deterministic wallets:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...

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Post by treethought »

TekMol wrote: post #3

I would love to see a tutorial on how to create a bitcoin address (a private + public key pair) with nothing but command line tools that are available in a standard Linux distribution.

The book "Mastering Bitcoin" by Andreas Antonopoulos steps through this. You can find the code here https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/code...

Re: Understanding Bitcoin Transactions

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Post by masterjack »

TekMol wrote: post #3

I would love to see a tutorial on how to create a bitcoin address (a private + public key pair) with nothing but command line tools that are available in a standard Linux distribution.

Here you go: Bitcoin the Hard way http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-raw-bi...

This shows you how to do everything yourself from scratch. There’s no such tutorial for ethereum, unfortunately, and it might be too complex a protocol to allow that.

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

treethought wrote: post #5
TekMol wrote: post #3

I would love to see a tutorial on how to create a bitcoin address (a private + public key pair) with nothing but command line tools that are available in a standard Linux distribution.

The book "Mastering Bitcoin" by Andreas Antonopoulos steps through this. You can find the code here https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/code...

I'm not too hot on Python, where do I find the imported libraries so as to interpret eg `bitcoin.encode_privkey(decoded_private_key, 'wif')`.

Re: Understanding Bitcoin Transactions

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Post by relyio »

TekMol wrote: post #3

I would love to see a tutorial on how to create a bitcoin address (a private + public key pair) with nothing but command line tools that are available in a standard Linux distribution.

Christopher Allen got you covered (almost): https://github.com/ChristopherA/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Co... "Learning Bitcoin from the CLI"

Re: Understanding Bitcoin Transactions

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Post by bobwaycott »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #7
treethought wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The book "Mastering Bitcoin" by Andreas Antonopoulos steps through this. You can find the code here https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/code...

I'm not too hot on Python, where do I find the imported libraries so as to interpret eg `bitcoin.encode_privkey(decoded_private_key, 'wif')`.

Based on the `import bitcoin`, it looks like it is using this library: https://github.com/vbuterin/pybitcointools

Re: Understanding Bitcoin Transactions

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Post by ribasushi »

TekMol wrote: post #3

I would love to see a tutorial on how to create a bitcoin address (a private + public key pair) with nothing but command line tools that are available in a standard Linux distribution.

You are in luck - this is simple enough to fit in two (2) tweets ( plus one more tweet for the decoder ):

https://twitter.com/ribasushi/status/939954274569785344

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