How to use pycoin for an altcoin

[lephleg]

I've tried to add a new entry in BUILT_IN_NETWORKS with the network details, however I do not know how can I enable this instead of the default Bitcoin network.

I'm trying to achieve a simple operation like generating an address from an extended public key, like I do for Bitcoin with the following code:

from pycoin.key import Key
# Pull BTC Address from given xpub
key = Key.from_text(xpub).subkey(0). \
         subkey(0)
address = key.address(use_uncompressed=False)

[skoroneos]

You need to set the ._netcode attribute

i.e key = Key.from_text(xpub).subkey(0).
subkey(0) key._netcode="LTC"

will generate the address for Litecoin

[LabtronicsDesign]

What coins are supported? It's there a list available

[metamarcdw]

@SPWC, check networks/all.py and networks/legacy_networks.py.

[LabtronicsDesign]

Ah sucks that it doesn't support bip 44 coin list

[arshiay]

You need to set the ._netcode attribute

i.e key = Key.from_text(xpub).subkey(0). subkey(0) key._netcode="LTC"

will generate the address for Litecoin

hi can you explain more i have

def secret_to_address(secret_exponent):
    k = Key(secret_exponent=secret_exponent)
    addr = k.address(use_uncompressed=True)
    caddr = k.address()
    wif = k.wif(use_uncompressed=True)
    return secret_exponent, wif, addr, caddr

how to change it for example doge?

[richardkiss]

I'm changing how all this works... take a look at the "develop" branch and start with pycoin.symbols.*. You will find a bunch of symbols in there with patches for each network. The patches are of various levels of quality, but generally support at least keys and addresses, if not transactions.

[richardkiss]

from pycoin.symbols.doge import network

secret_exponent = 1
k = network.keys.private(secret_exponent)
print(k.wif())
print(k.address())

[richardkiss]

I'd be happy to support the BIP44 coin list. Is there an authoritative list somewhere?

[lorien]

@richardkiss BIP44 spec: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0044.mediawiki BIP44 coins list: https://github.com/satoshilabs/slips/blob/master/slip-0044.md