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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 stan

by TekMol 9y 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 9y 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 9y 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 9y 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 9y 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 9y 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 9y ago
  To the parent’s point, creating an eth address is identical to bitcoin, it’s the same elliptic curve.
relyio 9y 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 9y 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 9y ago
https://www.royalfork.org/2014/07/31/address-gen/ https://www.royalfork.org/2014/07/31/address-gen/

by TekMol 9y 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 9y 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 9y 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 9y 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 9y 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 9y 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 9y ago
To the parent’s point, creating an eth address is identical to bitcoin, it’s the same elliptic curve.

relyio 9y 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 9y 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 9y ago

https://www.royalfork.org/2014/07/31/address-gen/ https://www.royalfork.org/2014/07/31/address-gen/