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CashAddr.js: The new Bitcoin Cash address format 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.

You can try out a general purpose Bitcoin Cash address translator using CashAddr.js here.

Installation

Using NPM

$ npm install --save cashaddrjs

Using Bower

$ bower install --save cashaddrjs

Manually

You may also download the distribution file manually and place it within your third-party scripts directory: dist/cashaddrjs-0.2.6.min.js.

Usage

In Node.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'

Browser

Script Tag

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://cdn.rawgit.com/bitcoincashjs/cashaddrjs/master/dist/cashaddrjs-0.2.6.min.js"></script>
  </head>
  ...
</html>

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