I have a bitcoin private key and know that it can output a segwit addresses of bech32 bc1... and p2sh 3... formats. How can this be done easily?
asked Mar 28, 2018 at 14:21
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Load up electrum 3.1.1+ and enable the "console" and in the console do the following to output the addresses you need by providing your private key:
bech32 format bc1...:
bitcoin.address_from_private_key("p2wpkh:5Kkzs8XrJNAmf9......")
p2sh format 3...:
bitcoin.address_from_private_key("p2wpkh-p2sh:5Kkzs8XrJNAmf9VQDFeG......")
you just need to prefix your private key with p2wpkh or p2wpkh-p2sh to get one of them.
answered Mar 28, 2018 at 14:25
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Keep in mind that this function requires the WIF encoding of the private key as an input.– Mike DMar 28, 2018 at 15:58
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I dont know about electrum but I have made a python library that can do what you want. PrivateKey.from_hex('yourkeyhere').to_public().to_address('P2WPKH')– Mike DMar 28, 2018 at 16:39
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