Bitcoin Address

JavaScript component to handle Bitcoin addresses.

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Install

Node.js/Browserify

npm install --save btc-address

Usage

var Address = require('btc-address')
var binConv = require('binstring')


var hash160 = "3c176e659bea0f29a3e9bf7880c112b1b31b4dc8";
var address = new Address(binConv(hash160, { in : 'hex', out: 'bytes'})); 
console.log(address.toString()) //16UjcYNBG9GTK4uq2f7yYEbuifqCzoLMGS

Credits

Most of the code from Stefan Thomas in https://github.com/bitcoinjs/bitcoinjs-lib with modifications from Roman Shtylman

License

(MIT License)