slip-0173.md

SLIP-0173 : Registered human-readable parts for BIP-0173

Number:  SLIP-0173
Title:   Registered human-readable parts for BIP-0173
Type:    Standard
Status:  Draft
Authors: Clark Moody <clark@clarkmoody.com>
Created: 2017-05-17

Abstract

BIP-0173 defines a new format for segregated witness output addresses that contains a human-readable part that identifies the coin type.

Motivation

The BIP repository does not want to deal with assigning the values for various coin types different than Bitcoin so we propose this SLIP to become such body.

Registered human-readable parts

These are the registered human-readable parts for usage in Bech32 encoding of witness programs.

hrp	coin	hrp	coin
bc	Bitcoin	tb	Bitcoin Testnet
ltc	Litecoin	tltc	Litecoin Testnet
vtc	Vertcoin	tvtc	Vertcoin Testnet
btg	Bitcoin Gold	tbtg	Bitcoin Gold Testnet
btp	Bitcoin Platinum	tbtp	Bitcoin Platinum Testnet
zen	Zen Protocol	tzn	Zen Protocol Testnet
grs	Groestlcoin	tgrs	Groestlcoin Testnet
via	Viacoin	tvia	Viacoin Testnet
fc	FujiCoin	tf	FujiCoin Testnet
bca	Bitcoin Atom	tbca	Bitcoin Atom Testnet
p	Bitcoin Private	t	Bitcoin Private Testnet

Libraries

• Reference Implementations

References

• BIP-0173: Base32 address format for native v0-16 witness outputs