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I am little bit confused or not able to get the right Address Node Public key from Account XPUB.

What I have done :

  1. Get the Account XPUB [78Bytes]

  2. SHA-256

  3. SHA-256 Again

  4. Created Extended XPUB (XPUB + 4 Start Byte of Step 3)

  5. Base 58 ENC

  6. hdnode_deserialize()

  7. Account Node 🡲 Change Node

  8. Change Node 🡲 Address Node.

But am not able to get the right Public Address.

Please let me know if I have done something wrong.

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    What you want to achieve (derivation protocol) is precisely described and detailed in BIP32 github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/… ...
    – Antoine Poinsot
    Jan 18, 2020 at 15:41
  • I just want to get the Address Node Public Address by Account XPUB ..
    – Amish Sharma
    Jan 18, 2020 at 15:58
  • i am writing my own application and somehow not able to get the right result and seek someone help
    – Amish Sharma
    Jan 18, 2020 at 15:58

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To go from account xpub to address, you must first derive an xpub at the External index (0) or Internal index (1), then derive another xpub from the External/Internal xpub. Take the public key from the resulting xpub and this is the public key used for the address.

For a detailed explanation of extended public keys and how to derive child public keys, take a look at the BIP32 documentation. For a not-as-in-depth breakdown of deriving addresses from an extended public key (which is exactly what you're trying to do), I have written this writeup.

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  • can you explain it further more, see what steps i have followed to derive Address Node Public Key. is there anything wrong in my implementation or pseudo code ?
    – Amish Sharma
    Jan 19, 2020 at 5:05
  • @AmishSharma Your implementation/pseudocode is very wrong and not even close to what actually happens. Please read my answer, specifically the second link.
    – Septem151
    Jan 19, 2020 at 14:45
  • Sorry, but i i have done some mistake due to which i was not able to derive right address .. My Pseudocode is perfectly fine .. By mistake i called hdnode_private_ckd() instead of hdnode_public_ckd()..
    – Amish Sharma
    Jan 19, 2020 at 15:05
  • Thanks for your time and feedback.. appreciate it
    – Amish Sharma
    Jan 19, 2020 at 15:05
  • @AmishSharma Please be careful with whatever you are doing. Your pseudocode does not do what you are asking in your question.
    – Septem151
    Jan 19, 2020 at 15:11

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