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Bitcoin Cash cashaddr address format support for Node.js and web browsers.
JavaScript implementation for the new CashAddr address format for Bitcoin Cash.
Compliant with the original CashAddr specification which improves upon BIP 173.
Note: This is a JavaScript implementation of the CashAddr format specification. If you are looking for a general purpose Bitcoin Cash address translation library, check out the easy-to-use and well-tested BchAddr.js.
$ npm install --save cashaddrjs
$ bower install --save cashaddrjs
You may also download the distribution file manually and place it within your third-party scripts directory: dist/cashaddrjs-0.4.4.min.js.
const cashaddr = require('cashaddrjs');
const address = 'bitcoincash:qpm2qsznhks23z7629mms6s4cwef74vcwvy22gdx6a';
const { prefix, type, hash } = cashaddr.decode(address);
console.log(prefix); // 'bitcoincash'
console.log(type); // 'P2PKH'
console.log(hash); // Uint8Array [ 118, 160, ..., 115 ]
console.log(cashaddr.encode(prefix, type, hash)); // 'bitcoincash:qpm2qsznhks23z7629mms6s4cwef74vcwvy22gdx6a'
Note: This is a JavaScript implementation of the CashAddr format specification. If you are looking for an easy-to-use and well-tested library to translate between different formats, check out BchAddr.js.
You may include a script tag in your HTML and the cashaddr module will be defined globally on subsequent scripts.
<html>
<head>
...
<script src="https://unpkg.com/cashaddrjs@0.4.4/dist/cashaddrjs-0.4.4.min.js"></script>
</head>
...
</html>
$ npm run docs
Browse automatically generated jsdocs online.
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Bitcoin Cash cashaddr address format support for Node.js and web browsers.
The npm package cashaddrjs receives a total of 73,790 weekly downloads. As such, cashaddrjs popularity was classified as popular.
We found that cashaddrjs 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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