Module address

Bitcoin addresses.

Support for ordinary base58 Bitcoin addresses and private keys.

Example: creating a new address from a randomly-generated key pair

use bitcoin::network::constants::Network;
use bitcoin::util::address::Address;
use bitcoin::PublicKey;
use bitcoin::secp256k1::Secp256k1;
use bitcoin::secp256k1::rand::thread_rng;

// Generate random key pair.
let s = Secp256k1::new();
let public_key = PublicKey::new(s.generate_keypair(&mut thread_rng()).1);

// Generate pay-to-pubkey-hash address.
let address = Address::p2pkh(&public_key, Network::Bitcoin);

Structs

Address

A Bitcoin address.

AddressEncoding

A utility struct to encode an address payload with the given parameters. This is a low-level utility struct. Consider using Address instead.

Enums

AddressType

The different types of addresses.

Error

Address error.

Payload

The method used to produce an address.

WitnessVersion

Version of the witness program.