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Hands-On Bitcoin Programming with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789537000
Length 90 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Creating a multisignature bitcoin address

A multisignature address is an address that is associated with more than one private key; therefore, we need to create three private keys.

Go through the following steps to create a multisignature bitcoin address:

  1. Create three private keys:
#!/usr/bin/env python
'''
Title - Create multi-signature address

This program demonstrates the creation of
Multi-signature bitcoin address.
'''
# import bitcoin
from bitcoin import *

# Create Private Keys
my_private_key1 = random_key()
my_private_key2 = random_key()
my_private_key3 = random_key()

print("Private Key1: %s" % my_private_key1)
print("Private Key2: %s" % my_private_key2)
print("Private Key3: %s" % my_private_key3)
print('\n')
  1. Create three public keys from those private keys using the privtopub function:
# Create Public keys
my_public_key1...
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