create-bitcoin-address-from-ecdsa-publickey

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create-bitcoin-address-from-ecdsa-publickey example

Create a bitcoin address from your ecdsa public key using the crypto/ecdsa standard package.

Table of Contents,

• PREREQUISITES
• OVERVIEW
• RUN

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PREREQUISITES

go get -v -u github.com/btcsuite/btcutil/base58
go get -v -u golang.org/x/crypto/ripemd160

OVERVIEW

This code is broken up as follows,

• generateECDSAKeys()
  • encodeKeys()
  • decodeKeys()
• generateBitcoinAddress()
  • hashPublicKey()
  • checksumKeyHash()
  • encodeKeyHash()

This illustration may help,

RUN

go run create-bitcoin-address-from-ecdsa-publickey.go

A website I used to test my code here.