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Re: [ANN][GRS] Groestlcoin | Upgrade to NEW Groestlcoin Core ASAP | Segwit activated
by
priestc
on 25/05/2017, 13:11:15 UTC
I tried to generate an address with the Groestlcoin paper wallet generator, but the address it gave had a "checksum error". The rivate key also gives me a checksum error too.

Here is the address: Foi3FNkp6f2u1aVyBLpUuQjAtvXvLoQyDz

and the corresponding private key also gives me a checksum error: 5KDcgddMkhPsLFypd1giap5fziz43SazRupaTmLYWvVmcu5YS9g

by any chance did Groestlcoin change the base58 address encoding that bitcoin uses? Why would it give me this error?

Here is the python code I'm using:

>>> from base58 import b58decode_check
>>> b58decode_check("Foi3FNkp6f2u1aVyBLpUuQjAtvXvLoQyDz")
ValueError: Invalid checksum
>>> b58decode_check("5KDcgddMkhPsLFypd1giap5fziz43SazRupaTmLYWvVmcu5YS9g")
ValueError: Invalid checksum


This base58 library works fine for other BTC forked coins like LTC, PPC, Doge, etc...