Title: How do i properly encode and decode base58 in python?
Post by: Bitcoin on Mar 11, 2022, 01:00 pm
Post by: Bitcoin on Mar 11, 2022, 01:00 pm
How do i properly encode and decode base58 in python?
Source: How do i properly encode and decode base58 in python? (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/110081/how-do-i-properly-encode-and-decode-base58-in-python)
I was following the tutorial here : https://hackernoon.com/how-to-generate-bitcoin-addresses-technical-address-generation-explanation-rus3z9e
i imported base58 to my python project :
import base58
I tried to convert the private key at the tutorial into the base58 version
privatekey = "a4f228d49910e8ecb53ba6f23f33fbfd2bad442e902ea20b8cf89c473237bf9f"
# expected : C6t2iJ7AXA2X1KQVnqw3r7NKtKaERdLnaGmbDZNqxXjk
privatekey_base58 = base58.b58encode(privatekey)
But it didn't give me the expected value like in the tutorial , instead it gives me this
How do i properly encode a string to base58 and decode base58 to original string ?
Source: How do i properly encode and decode base58 in python? (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/110081/how-do-i-properly-encode-and-decode-base58-in-python)