From d5bb6a02b919d667187e72bb6f1b6ac518201675 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "myarbrough@oreilly.com" Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 08:50:21 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Made changes to ch04.asciidoc --- ch04.asciidoc | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ch04.asciidoc b/ch04.asciidoc index 9a268840..c2ed5a5c 100644 --- a/ch04.asciidoc +++ b/ch04.asciidoc @@ -298,7 +298,6 @@ In bitcoin, most of the data presented to the user is Base58Check-encoded to mak | BIP32 Extended Public Key | 0x0488B21E | xpub |======= -===== Creating a bitcoin address from a private key Let's look at the complete process of creating a bitcoin address, from a private key, to a public key (a point on the elliptic curve), to a double-hashed address and finally, the Base58Check encoding. The C++ code in <> shows the complete step-by-step process, from private key to Base58Check-encoded bitcoin address. The code example uses the libbitcoin library introduced in <> for some helper functions.