Questions tagged [address-generation]
Collects technical details on the process of creating new addresses.
268
questions
1
vote
1answer
29 views
Payout address format has changed?
When I run bitcoin-qt, it sets up a default wallet. When I ask it for the recipient address for this wallet, I was expecting something like 1FGasdfasdfasdf123asdfasdf. However what it actually ...
0
votes
1answer
18 views
HD addresses and traceability question
Say I have 1 underlying Bitcoin address, and it has receiving address A and B, and they both received 2 BTC each. If spend 3 BTC then A and B would have spent together so it's probably traceable. What ...
2
votes
1answer
42 views
Is it possible to find additional key pairs resulting in the same address that I already control?
I'm not really well versed in the necessary terminology to get the answer I need from searching.
As I understand, there are 2^160 possible addresses, and 2^256 possible private keys, so each address ...
1
vote
1answer
69 views
How do you generate a Bitcoin wallet by hand?
I am interested in the exact process for generating the various components of a Bitcoin wallet by hand. Specifically, the components I'm interested in are:
Private Key
Public Key
Public Key Hash
...
0
votes
1answer
33 views
Deriving payable address from mnemonic using BIP44
I'm trying to go from seed phrase/mnemonic to payable address using BIP 44. Here is a simplified version of the code I'm using. However, when I compare with https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ the private, ...
0
votes
1answer
54 views
How to create a physical/paper backup for bitcoin-core wallet?
I am using bitcoin-core for my offline storage.
In electrum I can do a paper backup by writing down the mnemonics.
bitcoin-core seems to be using a different mechanism to generate the wallet.
What I ...
0
votes
1answer
88 views
I bought bitcoin years ago and now the website that I bought from is unavailable!
I bought bitcoin years ago and now the website that I bought from is unavailable!
I only have a key that I don't even know whether it's a public key or a private key or some useless key generated by ...
1
vote
1answer
43 views
Why is BIP32 not simply PublicKey multiplication?
I understand that:
pubkey(a + b) = pubkey(a).combine(pubkey(b))
where a and b are secret keys. (See: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/q/83694/17505)
If, under the circumstances:
Bob wants to pay ...
0
votes
0answers
21 views
Generating Multiple Addresses
Most wallets these days generate a set number of addresses when you create the wallet. For example, Electrum creates 30. But what if you need more? I know from talking to a LOT of people that there is ...
1
vote
1answer
91 views
Python: Why the addresses and keys generated by pywallet and bip32utils using the same 12 mnemonic words don't match?
I tried to generate wallets by using pywallet and bip32utils (Python). But I noted that the addresses/keys of the 2 wallets, namely wallet_pywallet and wallet_bip39 don't match with each other.
I ...
2
votes
0answers
76 views
How to “create new receiving address” from recently installed full node, (0.21.0) with new encrypted wallet?
On March 11th, 2021, I completed my downloaded of the full node from Bitcoin Core, (Bitcoin-0.21.0-win64-setup), on my Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz - 16.0GB, Windows 10Pro.
I created a ...
3
votes
1answer
289 views
How are Electrum addresses connected to my private key?
I've started using Electrum and created my first wallet. I saved the private key seed on a piece of paper.
I also created a new address by going to the Receive tab and clicking "New Address"....
1
vote
0answers
32 views
Understand how wallet genereates keys
I'm trying to understand how keys are generated by wallets in details and what different approaches that are used. More specifically I'm interested in how Electrum does this and how the deterministic ...
0
votes
1answer
48 views
Which address should be used to send the money as target?
We operate a market, there are sellers and buyers. Seller has Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets. Seller give us the Xpub. Which address should be used as destination, when buyer wants to send money ...
1
vote
1answer
66 views
How to derive BTC m44 addresses from xpub?
I checked Swan's Address Derivation Library https://github.com/swan-bitcoin/xpub-tool.
I try to get m44 address, but I got m84. Why? Do you know is it any parameter to force return m44? I tried to ...
5
votes
1answer
585 views
Two wallets with the same address
I understand that one can create a Bitcoin wallet as a pair of numbers (public & private key) with the right specifications and this is done quite easily in places like bitaddress.org
I also ...
1
vote
1answer
76 views
How do you generate a qr code for a new address and check for incoming payments from the command line?
Which one do you recommend for this
Command line to generate QR-Code + address for requesting money
Command line to check if the above has been received
I don't want to install too many versions of ...
1
vote
1answer
99 views
Exodus exported private key
I'm trying to understand why I'm having a hard time at importing exodus private keys in other wallets like jaxx o scatter.
I can't understand why I don't get the public address from the private key ...
0
votes
1answer
39 views
Two kinds of Bitcoin addresses issued with bitaddress.org
I forked the bitaddress.org repository and generated a new paper wallet. On the output page there are two addresses generated: one "regular" and one "short address". Both start ...
0
votes
1answer
353 views
Create a non-SegWit address in electrum wallet
I am trying to get along the electrum wallet command line in ubuntu. However, my exchange only accepts withdraws to canonical non-SegWit addresses (i.e. it only generates with a "bc1" prefix)...
1
vote
1answer
382 views
How many bytes does a Bitcoin address weight?
One of the biggest issues of Bitcoin blockchain is the ever increasing size. Each address has a weight in bytes or bits. What’s holding someone from creating trillions of different addresses and ...
0
votes
0answers
28 views
Private keys generation [duplicate]
I am unable to access the funds from my wallet and I'm told I must buy/or pay in order to get a private key.
Is this a scam or legit?
0
votes
1answer
69 views
Three different HEX having same wallet address how possible?
HEX1:
1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
public key:
...
1
vote
3answers
319 views
What is the relationship between a Bitcoin Private Key / Public Key / Address?
What is the relationship between a Bitcoin Private Key / Public Key / Address? I see that a private key / public key pair is generated, but is there a possibility of generating a private key already ...
1
vote
1answer
144 views
How can I determine the address from a private key?
From the steps in the wiki, take this example private key:
0C28FCA386C7A227600B2FE50B7CAE11EC86D3BF1FBE471BE89827E19D72AA1D
When I import this into Electrum, I find these values:
Address:
...
0
votes
1answer
51 views
How to generate new wallet address per token
I'm using getnewaddress bitcoin-cli function to generate wallet addresses but i need one address per token.
Is it possible to use a parameter like seed for random numbers to get the same address when ...
2
votes
1answer
315 views
How to generate valid BTC address to withdraw coins to
I set up bitcoind, and the complete blockchain is synced. I created a wallet, and I loaded the wallet.
How can I generate an address to deposit BTC to? I tried bitcoin-cli getnewaddress and I get this ...
0
votes
1answer
207 views
Generate address of 'private key' from user input
I want to take a private key as input from the user and convert it to a wallet address using C#.
I have seen this in a tutorial to generate a random key:
Key privateKey = new Key();
PubKey publicKey = ...
2
votes
2answers
474 views
What is needed to generate a bech32 address?
So I wrote a vanity address generator in c# with the NBitcoin lib. When I use the private key used to generate the address and input it in Mycelium it outputs a different address. This does not occur ...
1
vote
2answers
107 views
How to use UTXO of xpub derived addresses?
I'm new in Bitcoin, this is something I'm confused with.
If we are deriving children, i.e. public keys, from xpub, without private keys, for the purpose of receiving outputs, how are we able to spend ...
1
vote
1answer
52 views
If I only know my private key, can I still login to my wallet, even if this requires some calculations?
I keep my 12 word mnemonics carefully off line. But suppose I just had my private key left after some disaster or other could I then, after some procedures, log in to my wallet ? I can see that I can ...
2
votes
2answers
117 views
Public Keys Prefixes and Derivation Paths
When importing an zpub, for example, to a wallet, does the wallet understand it should recreate a set of addresses using the derivation path "m/84'/0'/0'" and the script type "p2wpkh&...
0
votes
2answers
116 views
How Bitcoin nodes validate a new wallet
I have a cuple of questions about how wallet creation works. If I create a Bitcoin wallet offline, is there any way of like validate the new wallet, I mean, what if this wallet already exist? I know ...
1
vote
1answer
70 views
Address generator error with python
I had created a script that creates a bitcoin private key, public key and address, for checking if all works fine I create one and check the private key on https://walletgenerator.net/, and it outputs ...
4
votes
2answers
954 views
Unknown Address Format Parsing Bitcoin Addresses from Blockchair Data
I've obtained a list of all current Bitcoin addresses with balances from Blockchair, which is downloadable from their data repository located here. I have downloaded the Bitcoin / Addresses TSV ...
1
vote
0answers
254 views
how to create Bitcoin address , p2sh segwit and Bitcoin segwit address on python console from pubkey?
i am new on python,
i know it
how to create Bitcoin address , p2sh segwit and Bitcoin segwit address on python console ?
i use https://github.com/richardkiss/pycoin
and command-line
(base) C:\Users\...
1
vote
2answers
113 views
Correct Approach for Payments on Multiple Addresses
I have clients that would like to pay for services in BTC.
TL;DR
To generate a new payment address must I generate a new private key (essentially a new wallet)?
Is it better to generate independent ...
1
vote
1answer
38 views
How can I calculate the possible number of correctly formatted version one minikeys?
I'm doing a small research project collecting information on minikeys. In that research process I've come across a couple of questions that I have been unable to answer in relation to the assumed ...
3
votes
2answers
86 views
How can I progmatically generate bitcoin address with in WASABI Deskstop wallet?
I would like to generate 10000 btc address and save it as csv file on my computer to be uploaded it on my server. I hope anyone can help me find the solution.
Thanks in advanced!
0
votes
1answer
67 views
Generate my own public/private key to secure my bitcoins
I have a few bitcoins on a bitcoin platform (Kraken). I do not trust any bitcoin platform. I want to own my bitcoins.
I do not trust Ledger devices too.
What i want to do is to generate my own ...
0
votes
2answers
172 views
Generating Bitcoin address from private key in browser console
I am a newbie Bitcoin evangelist and I have a recommendation to see all the code responsible for computing yourPublicKey from yourPrivateKey, especially for big deal addresses.
The easiest way to ...
2
votes
2answers
1k views
When you buy bitcoin do you get the private key mailed to you?
I'm very confused about how you get your private key and how you can transfer it.
1
vote
2answers
63 views
How can I execute `getnewaddress` at my full node from a remote server?
I have a full node running on a digital ocean droplet. I have an app running at heroku, and I want to execute getnewaddress from this app. I'm trying to generate BTC addresses to which users can send ...
1
vote
0answers
135 views
How to generate these bitcoin addresses?
For the private key KwaZRh42fdQD4iUN6sy2GtEC5gfSAYXrQgp16KPV4Pxsspi5ChRb, I have the following addresses:
1N7jKvQ1fHezb61eNsGEaF4gcj5sQXhb2m (P2PKH)
14MNoFYWheu7sLkj8urvXCpYEdCuL4m2PH (P2PKH)
...
0
votes
1answer
734 views
How to generate sub addresses belonging to one private key
We're creating a platform to buy/sell Bitcoin.
We need to generate a new child address for each customer allowing them to receive Bitcoin. But all incoming Bitcoins should be stored in our main ...
1
vote
0answers
43 views
Not receiving Compact Block even after 'sendcompact' message
I have setup a regtest net locally with 2 nodes. One of nodes generates blocks using 'bitcoin-cli generatetoaddress 10 ', sendcompact message was sent from other node yet it gets normal block(...
4
votes
1answer
397 views
How many possible addresses per bitcoin private key?
Based on my research every bitcoin private key (compressed or uncompressed) can have 4 different addresses:
P2PKH compressed and starts with 1
P2PKH uncompressed and starts with 1
P2SH and starts ...
0
votes
1answer
372 views
How To get Address Public Key from Account XPUB?
I am little bit confused or not able to get the right Address Node Public key from Account XPUB.
What I have done :
Get the Account XPUB [78Bytes]
SHA-256
SHA-256 Again
Created Extended XPUB (XPUB ...
0
votes
0answers
106 views
Creating bech32 address on bitcoin core automatically generate another address on lightning network
my lightning network backend is bitcoind. Interesting when I execute getnewaddress label bech32 another bech32 address is automatically generated. I found it because at the lightning network console ...
0
votes
0answers
112 views
Trying to programmically generate unused receiving address from a xPub
I'm trying to generate unused receiving Bitcoin address from xPub using PyWallet python library .
I got the xPub from my BIP32 Electrum wallet.
Here is what I tried
from pywallet import wallet
...
