btcaddr

Generate bitcoin addresses.

Installing

$ pip install btcaddr

Usage

$ btcaddr
wif: 5JJmg63yH9r21XKZfYwp37rFiazH2kX1jdyvzF63FCKfam8NxHn
address: 1P3hSHjtmekV7M76SbK7EvskwJZ1BeNuoM

Testing

You will need a running bitcoind instance.

1. Generate 1000 addresses.

    $ seq 1 1000 | xargs -n1 btcaddr > btcaddr.out
   

2. Import the the private keys into bitcoind.

    $ grep 'wif: ' btcaddr.out | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | sort > wif.out
    $ xargs -n1 -I{} -P16 bitcoin-cli importprivkey {} '' false < wif.out
   

3. Get the private key associated with each address according to bitcoind.

    $ grep 'address: ' btcaddr.out | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | xargs -n1 -I{} -P16 bitcoin-cli dumpprivkey {} | sort > dumpprivkey.out
   

4. Compare with the generated private keys.

    $ diff dumpprivkey.out wif.out