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Understanding Bitcoin Transactions

91 points by jotto 8y ago

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TekMol 8y ago
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.
- malvosenior 8y ago
  If you want to read about something really interesting, check out hierarchical deterministic wallets: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...
- treethought 8y ago
  The book "Mastering Bitcoin" by Andreas Antonopoulos steps through this. You can find the code here https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/code/key-to-address-ecc-example.py https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/code...
  - pbhjpbhj 8y ago
    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')`.
    - bobwaycott 8y ago
      Based on the `import bitcoin`, it looks like it is using this library: https://github.com/vbuterin/pybitcointools https://github.com/vbuterin/pybitcointools
- masterjack 8y ago
  Here you go: Bitcoin the Hard way http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-raw-bitcoin.html?m=1 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.
  - ecesena 8y ago
    To the parent’s point, creating an eth address is identical to bitcoin, it’s the same elliptic curve.
- relyio 8y ago
  Christopher Allen got you covered (almost): https://github.com/ChristopherA/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line https://github.com/ChristopherA/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Co... "Learning Bitcoin from the CLI"
- ribasushi 8y ago
  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 https://twitter.com/ribasushi/status/939954274569785344
- decentralised 8y ago
  https://www.royalfork.org/2014/07/31/address-gen/ https://www.royalfork.org/2014/07/31/address-gen/
Promarged 8y ago
For a long time this article [0] was my go-to when explaining Bitcoin transactions to others but this submission is more recent (has SegWit, etc.) [0]: https://curiosity-driven.org/bitcoin-contracts https://curiosity-driven.org/bitcoin-contracts
- deleted 8y ago
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noahfrombundil 8y ago
This is one of my favorites https://cryptominded.com/ https://cryptominded.com/
- haon1001 8y ago
  Nice

91 points by jotto 8y ago

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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.

malvosenior 8y ago
If you want to read about something really interesting, check out hierarchical deterministic wallets: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...
treethought 8y ago
The book "Mastering Bitcoin" by Andreas Antonopoulos steps through this. You can find the code here https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/code/key-to-address-ecc-example.py https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/code...
- pbhjpbhj 8y ago
  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')`.
  - bobwaycott 8y ago
    Based on the `import bitcoin`, it looks like it is using this library: https://github.com/vbuterin/pybitcointools https://github.com/vbuterin/pybitcointools
masterjack 8y ago
Here you go: Bitcoin the Hard way http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-raw-bitcoin.html?m=1 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.
- ecesena 8y ago
  To the parent’s point, creating an eth address is identical to bitcoin, it’s the same elliptic curve.
relyio 8y ago
Christopher Allen got you covered (almost): https://github.com/ChristopherA/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line https://github.com/ChristopherA/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Co... "Learning Bitcoin from the CLI"
ribasushi 8y ago
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 https://twitter.com/ribasushi/status/939954274569785344
decentralised 8y ago
https://www.royalfork.org/2014/07/31/address-gen/ https://www.royalfork.org/2014/07/31/address-gen/

Promarged 8y ago

For a long time this article [0] was my go-to when explaining Bitcoin transactions to others but this submission is more recent (has SegWit, etc.) [0]: https://curiosity-driven.org/bitcoin-contracts https://curiosity-driven.org/bitcoin-contracts

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noahfrombundil 8y ago

This is one of my favorites https://cryptominded.com/ https://cryptominded.com/

haon1001 8y ago
Nice