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bitcore-message-chaincoin
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bitcore-message-chaincoin adds support for verifying and signing chaincoin messages in Node.js and web browsers.
See the main bitcore-chaincoin repo for more information.
npm install bitcore-message-chaincoin
bower install bitcore-message-chaincoin
To sign a message:
var bitcore = require('bitcore-lib-chaincoin');
var Message = require('bitcore-message-chaincoin');
var privateKey = bitcore.PrivateKey.fromWIF('cPBn5A4ikZvBTQ8D7NnvHZYCAxzDZ5Z2TSGW2LkyPiLxqYaJPBW4');
var signature = Message('hello, world').sign(privateKey);
To verify a message:
var address = 'n1ZCYg9YXtB5XCZazLxSmPDa8iwJRZHhGx';
var signature = 'H/DIn8uA1scAuKLlCx+/9LnAcJtwQQ0PmcPrJUq90aboLv3fH5fFvY+vmbfOSFEtGarznYli6ShPr9RXwY9UrIY=';
var verified = Message('hello, world').verify(address, signature);
See CONTRIBUTING.md on the main bitcore-chaincoin repo for information about how to contribute.
Code released under the MIT license.
Copyright 2013-2015 BitPay, Inc. Bitcore is a trademark maintained by BitPay, Inc.
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Chaincoin Messages for Bitcore-Chaincoin
We found that bitcore-message-chaincoin demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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