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ivy-lang / ivy-bitcoin

A high-level language and IDE for writing Bitcoin smart contracts.
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Ability to generate BCH addresses #6

Closed dymurray closed 6 years ago

dymurray commented 6 years ago

I would like to generate a valid BCH address in Ivy. Do you have any plans to support this and if you do is there a workaround I could test out?

Thanks, Dylan

danrobinson commented 6 years ago

All Bitcoin addresses created by the Ivy playground and SDK are SegWit addresses, which are not properly supported by Bitcoin Cash (they are effectively treated as anyone-can-spend addresses, although to spend them you need to know the redeem script). We don't have any plans to support non-SegWit addresses, since such addresses allow transaction malleability, thus foreclosing some of the more interesting things we would like to do with Ivy for Bitcoin.

Kinnardian commented 6 years ago

Maybe create a fork @dymurray ?