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stacks-network / pybitcoin

A Bitcoin python library for private + public keys, addresses, transactions, & RPC
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From private key to public key -> BTC address #52

Closed FAlbanni closed 8 years ago

FAlbanni commented 8 years ago

BTC address: '1DcKRUKGKt5bwi3mtFNNEuufp6DFxEBR9C' Private Key: 'fb8c80c0d5af5c14e3b19265bf4c1fef00a457933b2022d145694a541549acaf'

I have a private key and I want to get the BTC address, this is what I do:

from pybitcoin import BitcoinPrivateKey private_key = BitcoinPrivateKey('fb8c80c0d5af5c14e3b19265bf4c1fef00a457933b2022d145694a541549acaf') private_key.public_key().address()

output: '1DBkszCUoFuXEJE1ynbteVLYZcuUjjKChS'

what I am doing wrong?

shea256 commented 8 years ago

Hey @FAlbanni this should work:

>>> from pybitcoin import BitcoinPrivateKey
>>> private_key = BitcoinPrivateKey('fb8c80c0d5af5c14e3b19265bf4c1fef00a457933b2022d145694a541549acaf', compressed=True)
>>> private_key.public_key().address()
'1DcKRUKGKt5bwi3mtFNNEuufp6DFxEBR9C'
FAlbanni commented 8 years ago

compressed=True of course thank you!!!