Converting from Private Key to WIF, what am i missing?

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They say a image speaks louder then 1000 words so:

As you can see from the image above, this should work ? What am i missing here?

I can confirm the private key spitted out is in correct format for if i do a dump i get:

$ ./src/d-cli dumpprivkey WRSybD94sWugjAQ89zyvbLsnw76ovCYEGo
BxkN86fdFBN75Aat3WCDs9w6NRHCMJJvvrDgb44Vcc23f96ohFZ5

How does your encode() function work? You probably aren't encoding it as base58 correctly or you are encoding the wrong thing (e.g. hex string instead of the bytes themselves). — Andrew Chow, Mar 16, 2018 at 20:18
sorry i edited my question to tell about my encode function, cryptocoinjs.com/modules/currency/coinstring and i can confirm the spitted out key is in correct format, the PREFIX is 100% correct as you can see by the image and code reference, really struggling with this one :( — scott, Mar 16, 2018 at 20:33
You can see on the referenced encode() function that im sure im doing everything correct? — scott, Mar 16, 2018 at 20:39

scott · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-16 21:01:05Z

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The issue as suggest by Andrew was in the encode function. After using https://www.npmjs.com/package/wif everything worked perfectly as intended.

answered Mar 16, 2018 at 21:01

scott

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and here is the list of address prefixes: en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_address_prefixes
– pebwindkraft
Mar 16, 2018 at 22:48

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