FWIW, I was looking at eth code in the weekend and it's pretty accessible (I was looking at go -- I've read that eth python should be even more readable). The

FWIW, I was looking at eth code in the weekend and it's pretty accessible (I was looking at go -- I've read that eth python should be even more readable). The address part is very similar, even simpler, than bitcoin. It's the same elliptic curve, same way to build private/public keys. For the address, it uses a different hash function, Keccak256, and then it's just serialized in hex. Code here [1]. Pointers to key generation [2, 3]. [1] https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/release/1.6/crypto/crypto.go#L181 https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/release/1.6/cry... [2] https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/release/1.6/accounts/keystore/key.go#L169 https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/release/1.6/acc... [3] https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/release/1.6/accounts/keystore/key.go#L138 https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/release/1.6/acc...