btcutil

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cosmos/btcutil

This repo is a fork of btcsuite/btcutil, limited to the package required by the Cosmos SDK.

• base58 (unchanged)
• bech32 (API change in Decode)

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Overview

Package btcutil provides bitcoin-specific convenience functions and types. Block Overview A Block defines a bitcoin block that provides easier and more efficient manipulation of raw wire protocol blocks. It also memoizes hashes for the block and its transactions on their first access so subsequent accesses don't have to repeat the relatively expensive hashing operations. Tx Overview A Tx defines a bitcoin transaction that provides more efficient manipulation of raw wire protocol transactions. It memoizes the hash for the transaction on its first access so subsequent accesses don't have to repeat the relatively expensive hashing operations. Address Overview The Address interface provides an abstraction for a Bitcoin address. While the most common type is a pay-to-pubkey-hash, Bitcoin already supports others and may well support more in the future. This package currently provides implementations for the pay-to-pubkey, pay-to-pubkey-hash, and pay-to-script-hash address types. To decode/encode an address:

// NOTE: The default network is only used for address types which do not
// already contain that information.  At this time, that is only
// pay-to-pubkey addresses.
addrString := "04678afdb0fe5548271967f1a67130b7105cd6a828e03909a67962" +
	"e0ea1f61deb649f6bc3f4cef38c4f35504e51ec112de5c384df7ba0b8d57" +
	"8a4c702b6bf11d5f"
defaultNet := &chaincfg.MainNetParams
addr, err := btcutil.DecodeAddress(addrString, defaultNet)
if err != nil {
	fmt.Println(err)
	return
}
fmt.Println(addr.EncodeAddress())