我们回顾比特币地址产生的完整过程,从私钥、到公钥(椭圆曲线上某个点)、再到双重哈希地址,到最终的 Base58Check编码。例4-3的C++代码完整详细的展示了从私钥到Base58Check编码后的比特币地址的步骤。代码中使用“3.3 其他客户端、资料库、工具包 ”一节中介绍的libbitcoin库中的助手函数。
例4-3.从私钥中创建Base58Check编码的比特币地址
addr.cpp文件中的代码如下:
#include <bitcoin/bitcoin.hpp>
int main()
{
    // Private secret key string as base16
    bc::ec_secret decoded;
    bc::decode_base16(decoded,
        "038109007313a5807b2eccc082c8c3fbb988a973cacf1a7df9ce725c31b14776");
    bc::wallet::ec_private secret(
        decoded, bc::wallet::ec_private::mainnet_p2kh);
    // Get public key.
    bc::wallet::ec_public public_key(secret);
    std::cout << "Public key: " << public_key.encoded() << std::endl;
    // Create Bitcoin address.
    // Normally you can use:
    //    bc::wallet::payment_address payaddr =
    //        public_key.to_payment_address(
    //            bc::wallet::ec_public::mainnet_p2kh);
    //  const std::string address = payaddr.encoded();
    // Compute hash of public key for P2PKH address.
    bc::data_chunk public_key_data;
    public_key.to_data(public_key_data);
    const auto hash = bc::bitcoin_short_hash(public_key_data);
    bc::data_chunk unencoded_address;
    // Reserve 25 bytes
    //   [ version:1  ]
    //   [ hash:20    ]
    //   [ checksum:4 ]
    unencoded_address.reserve(25);
    // Version byte, 0 is normal BTC address (P2PKH).
    unencoded_address.push_back(0);
    // Hash data
    bc::extend_data(unencoded_address, hash);
    // Checksum is computed by hashing data, and adding 4 bytes from hash.
    bc::append_checksum(unencoded_address);
    // Finally we must encode the result in Bitcoin's base58 encoding.
    assert(unencoded_address.size() == 25);
    const std::string address = bc::encode_base58(unencoded_address);
    std::cout << "Address: " << address << std::endl;
    return 0;
}上述代码使用预定义的私钥在每次运行时产生相同的比特币地址,如下例所示
例4-4 编译并运行addr代码
 Compile the addr.cpp code
$ g++ -o addr addr.cpp $(pkg-config --cflags --libs libbitcoin)
Run the addr executable
$ ./addr
Public key: 0202a406624211f2abbdc68da3df929f938c3399dd79fac1b51b0e4ad1d26a47aa
Address: 1PRTTaJesdNovgne6Ehcdu1fpEdX7913CK提示 例4-4中的代码从压缩公钥(参见上面的“压缩公钥”一节)生成了一个比特币地址(1PRTT…)。如果使用了未压缩公钥,就会生成另外一个地址(14K1y…)。
