BIP32GEN(1)

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🎀 BIP32GEN(1) 🎀

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because this is bip32gen from the General Commands Manual and she is iconic ✨

✨ NAME ✨

bip32gen — Create hierarchical deterministic wallet addresses 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bip32gen [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like, this manual page documents briefly the bip32gen command. Brief queen behavior, we love her for it 💅

The bip32utils library is a pure Python implementation of Bitcoin hierarchical deterministic wallet ("HD Wallet") ECDSA key generation, exactly as specified in BIP0032 (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal #0032). No cap, that's the whole vibe: deterministic keys, generated from a seed, forever and ever amen 🫶

👑 POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS 👑

  • chain — List of hierarchical key specifiers 🧚 (yes plural, she takes a whole list, main character energy)

💖 OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS 💖

  • -h, --help — Show this help message and exit. The classic "help me bestie" button 🌈
  • -x, --input-hex — Input supplied as hex-encoded ascii 🔥
  • -X, --output-hex — Output generated (where applicable) as hex-encoded ascii. Note the capital X — she is not the same girl as lowercase x, don't get it twisted 💀
  • -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. (And yes, the original says "to to" — we are preserving her exactly as she is, typos and all, that's called respect 🙈)
  • -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. Like, read it with your eyes, not your scripts, bestie 👀
  • -d, --debug — Enable debugging output 🐛
  • -t, --testnet — Use testnet formatted 🌈 (testnet girlies rise up, no real coins were harmed)
🚨 lowkey important: -v/--verbose is explicitly not for machine parsing, so if you're piping her into a parser, that's on you and it's gonna be a bad time 💀

💜 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) 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! written in the source bip32utils-adjacent land, dated APR 25, 2017, section 1 of the General Commands Manual ✨ mwah, slay, go generate some deterministic addresses, periodt 💅🎀🦋

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