can you add bitpay address to cashaddress?

[waliguder]

I use the tool https://github.com/ranaroussi/pywallet to generate my BCH address ,but it is bitpay address
,I don't want to ust the web tool to transform,it's so troubleful
thank !

[ghost]

Bitpay addresses were kind of an awkward time for Bitcoin Cash and should be dying off entirely. Personally, I think this would not be a good feature.

I'd rather see your suggestion of switching pywallet to cashaddr go through: ranaroussi/pywallet#22

[oskyk]

@ztlovemst11 I also believe that bitpay should die but if you have to theese few lines will convert bitpay addr to legacy addr

bitpay_addr = 'CcNTLZejsi5ahwP2srWCtgm4JrYeCEhqcB'

from base58 import b58decode_check, b58encode_check
legacy = b58encode_check(b'\x00' + b58decode_check(bitpay_addr)[1:])
print(legacy)

Note: This will only work for p2pkh addresses for p2sh you have to use different version byte

[waliguder]

@teran-mckinney Yes, I first used pywallet to generate the BCH address, but it gave me the address of the bitpay type. This type of address is not accepted by most people, so I need to convert it, but every time I request API to translate address, that takes a long time to return the cashaddress, I am very upset. Fortunately, I found your bitcash, it solved a lot of problems for me, thank you very much for your contribution.

[waliguder]

@oskyk Thank you very much, it will help people who are as confused as me.