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BIP32GEN(1) General Commands Manual BIP32GEN(1)

NAME

bip32gen - Create hierarchical deterministic wallet addresses

SYNOPSIS

bip32gen [options]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the bip32gen command.

The bip32utils library is a pure Python implementation of Bitcoin hierarchical deterministic wallet ("HD Wallet") ECDSA key generation as specified in BIP0032 (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal #0032).

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

chain
List of hierarchical key specifiers

OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS

-h, --help
Show this help message and exit
-x, --input-hex
Input supplied as hex-encoded ascii
-X, --output-hex
Output generated (where applicable) as hex-encoded ascii
-i [type], --input-type [type]
Source material to generate key, where type can be: entropy,xprv,xpub
-n AMOUNT, --amount AMOUNT
Amount of entropy to to read (bits), None for all of input
-f FROM_FILE, --from-file FROM_FILE
Filespec of input data, '-' for stdin
--o OUTPUT_TYPE, --output-type OUTPUT_TYPE
Output types, comma separated, from addr|privkey|wif|pubkey|xprv|xpub|chain
-v, --verbose
Verbose output, not for machine parsing
-d, --debug
Enable debugging output
-t, --testnet
Use testnet formatted

AUTHOR

bip32gen was written by Johnathan Corgan <johnathan@corganlabs.com>

This manual page was written by Josue Ortega <josue@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

April 25, 2017