From the old topic it's a PUBLIC key not a PRIVATE key. Why did you change it?
I don't want to post my private Key online so anyone can take my BTC.
Thx for this code with Python HCP. This was what I need.
This gives an cool formated output to see everthing bedder:
Code:
openssl asn1parse -in privatekey.pem
Hex-dump is the Private Key
I found a Code from https://gist.github.com/Jun-Wang-2018/3105e29e0d61ecf88530c092199371a7#file-bitcoin_from_private_key_to_wif-py to convert HEX to WIF:
Code:
# From private key(hex) to Wallet Import Format(WIF)
# Reference: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-create-a-bitcoin-wallet-address-from-a-private-key-eca3ddd9c05f
# https://docs.python.org/2/library/hashlib.html
import codecs #If not installed: "pip3 install codecs"
import hashlib
# PK0 is a demo private key.
PK0 = "3cd0560f5b27591916c643a0b7aa69d03839380a738d2e912990dcc573715d2c"
PK1 = '80'+ PK0
PK2 = hashlib.sha256(codecs.decode(PK1, 'hex'))
PK3 = hashlib.sha256(PK2.digest())
checksum = codecs.encode(PK3.digest(), 'hex')[0:8]
PK4 = PK1 + str(checksum)[2:10] #I know it looks wierd
# Define base58
def base58(address_hex):
alphabet = '123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz'
b58_string = ''
# Get the number of leading zeros
leading_zeros = len(address_hex) - len(address_hex.lstrip('0'))
# Convert hex to decimal
address_int = int(address_hex, 16)
# Append digits to the start of string
while address_int > 0:
digit = address_int % 58
digit_char = alphabet[digit]
b58_string = digit_char + b58_string
address_int //= 58
# Add ‘1’ for each 2 leading zeros
ones = leading_zeros // 2
for one in range(ones):
b58_string = '1' + b58_string
return b58_string
WIF = base58(PK4)
print(WIF)
# Reference: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-create-a-bitcoin-wallet-address-from-a-private-key-eca3ddd9c05f
# https://docs.python.org/2/library/hashlib.html
import codecs #If not installed: "pip3 install codecs"
import hashlib
# PK0 is a demo private key.
PK0 = "3cd0560f5b27591916c643a0b7aa69d03839380a738d2e912990dcc573715d2c"
PK1 = '80'+ PK0
PK2 = hashlib.sha256(codecs.decode(PK1, 'hex'))
PK3 = hashlib.sha256(PK2.digest())
checksum = codecs.encode(PK3.digest(), 'hex')[0:8]
PK4 = PK1 + str(checksum)[2:10] #I know it looks wierd
# Define base58
def base58(address_hex):
alphabet = '123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz'
b58_string = ''
# Get the number of leading zeros
leading_zeros = len(address_hex) - len(address_hex.lstrip('0'))
# Convert hex to decimal
address_int = int(address_hex, 16)
# Append digits to the start of string
while address_int > 0:
digit = address_int % 58
digit_char = alphabet[digit]
b58_string = digit_char + b58_string
address_int //= 58
# Add ‘1’ for each 2 leading zeros
ones = leading_zeros // 2
for one in range(ones):
b58_string = '1' + b58_string
return b58_string
WIF = base58(PK4)
print(WIF)
