CoinsAddressValidator

This gem allows you to check if virtual coin address is valid and retrieve information about it.

Supported coins:

• Bitcoin (BTC),
• DASH (DASH),
• Dogecoin (DOGE),
• Litecoin (LTC),
• Namecoin (NMC),
• Peercoin (PPC),
• Primecoin (XPM)

If you find this gem useful please send few coins for coffee:

• BTC: 1HRqmR2dbuHKeNWp478W77NxLzPi63QoKi
• LTC: LUzmQEYEMHxh7Q8JWh3vjW2BYCGd8VxANF
• DASH: XtPu4gA71zMdp37x3XiYdG2U25UA85Gq1w

Thank you! :)

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'coins_address_validator'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install coins_address_validator

Usage

This gem has two public methods:

is_address_valid?() 

which checks if address passed as a parameter is valid BASE58 string, has correct length and checksum from decoded address is equal to first four bytes of SHA256(SHA256(h160))

Second one:

get_address_info()

returns information about network (Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc.), network symbol and type of address.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/Hothza/coins_address_validator/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request