BTC Address

A collection of tools for Bitcoin address generation, information retrieval, and various utilities.

Motivation

Scripts for a detailed and accurate representation of the algorithm for generating BTC addresses using standard technologies such as bash. These scripts can run on simple offline devices to increase security.

Shell

• btc-address.sh
• btc-address-min.sh

Minimal shell script that uses openssl to generate a Bitcoin address from an entropy input.

Example

$ ./sh/btc-address.sh [ENTROPY]

$ ./sh/btc-address.sh
entropy:
priv: e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855
priv WIF: ssjWnCBs992j1CS2ryy7dTz5PNnGwbbQ2XutrPF3z93oEUdZYK5
pub: 04a34b99f22c790c4e36b2b3c2c35a36db06226e41c692fc82b8b56ac1c540c5bd5b8dec5235a0fa8722476c7709c02559e3aa73aa03918ba2d492eea75abea235
btc: 1NzEiDga54pxkKa6wDxJaSTfZoaekjkwZH

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