Getting Hash160 bitcoin address in python

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I'm trying to figure out, how transactions work in bitcoin.

When I choose inputs for a new tx I want to make sure they belong to a specific address. However, existing txs do not specify previous outputs' addresses, but instead they contain address's hash.

e.g.:

>> bx fetch-tx 11a1b7ac0a65bd50b7094c720aecd77cfd83d84b1707960fd00dd82a888aab5c --config /home/theo/Desktop/bx-testnet.cfg


{

    hash 11a1b7ac0a65bd50b7094c720aecd77cfd83d84b1707960fd00dd82a888aab5c

    inputs

    {

        input

        {

            address_hash f3b7278583827a049d6be894bf7f516178a0c8e6

            previous_output

            {

                hash 4a3532061d43086299ae9b2409a456bb9638dff32e0858c4ccda27203fb2e4f6

                index 1

            }

            script "[30440220146b8b5b014245a9e27e21122d4dded04c3f39c3a49ac2494743d6f6ae8efff602206d417a4be9c7431ea69699132438510ade1cf8d746607f77d114907762ed1eb301] [023dd2e892290e41bb78efce6ea30a97015ef13eaaa9ebb7b0514485fc365cc391]"

            sequence 4294967295

        }

    }

    lock_time 0

    outputs

    {

        output

        {

            address_hash a73706385fffbf18855f2aee2a6168f29dbb597e

            script "dup hash160 [a73706385fffbf18855f2aee2a6168f29dbb597e] equalverify checksig"

            value 130000000

        }

        output

        {

            address_hash ad6e80394af99ece5d7701bf2f457480b93965b7

            script "dup hash160 [ad6e80394af99ece5d7701bf2f457480b93965b7] equalverify checksig"

            value 49525957813

        }

    }

    version 1

}

What do to if I want to check which of the outputs can be sent from address mvm74FACaagz94rjWbNmW2EmhJdmEGcxpa 

So I take its Hash160 in Python:

>> hashlib.new('ripemd160', hashlib.sha256("mvm74FACaagz94rjWbNmW2EmhJdmEGcxpa".encode('utf-8')).digest()).hexdigest()

'748598cd9b004aecf8a2d97464fb1f2a90562ffe'

That is not the result I expected: a73706385fffbf18855f2aee2a6168f29dbb597e

How to get Hash160?

Aug 24, 2018 in Blockchain by digger
• 26,740 points
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1 answer to this question.

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There is a package to decode and encode in base58 and it's called base58. You can install it using the following command:

python -m pip install base58

Then use this to get the ripemd160 hash of a bitcoin address coded in base58 (python 2.7):

>>>import base58

>>>adr58 = '1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3'

>>>adr160 = base58.b58decode_check(adr58).encode('hex')[2:]

>>>print (adr160)

fc916f213a3d7f1369313d5fa30f6168f9446a2d
answered Aug 24, 2018 by slayer
• 29,370 points

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