Command Line Interface

generate-keypair [crypto] [seed] [--password]

Generates a new private and public keys, including hex and WIF encodings. Optionally pass in a password that will be used to BIP38 encode the private key.

$ moneywagon generate-keypair btc SomERanDoMTexT --password=123 | python -mjson.tool
{
    "private": {
        "wif": "6PYVdYvBaMXD7bFNJwMh8DCTxcBQjzyPmqWDQDp2PBKYyFUACph7vzjeaN"
    },
    "public": {
        "address": "1BrUfC75qyLQxxp7qcisfaMmwRMECo4ETC",
        "hex": "037a7e546b2d9ecd9aa99d63c5d6eb4b4cc6880a6a7df8a02a2d83bc4e6b1022ab",
        "hex_uncompressed": "047a7e546b2d9ecd9aa99d63c5d6eb4b4cc6880a6a7df8a02a2d83bc4e6b1022abcd2a6af5c8e36d74779e23d6be11fc0aaf923b7269d2d43b39dc970df8e98449"
    }
}
$ moneywagon generate-keypair btc SomERanDoMTexT | python -mjson.tool
{
    "private": {
        "hex": "c1fb6c4ccd6e6646e2ffea8608f67450ac98e64b26b748ad963ae22fc13367ed01",
        "hex_uncompressed": "c1fb6c4ccd6e6646e2ffea8608f67450ac98e64b26b748ad963ae22fc13367ed",
        "wif": "L3inayCqKqXUbu3yUHxjqWSurW5pc7bXEbwJCqUhEPfUqkTzhsgz",
        "wif_uncompressed": "5KHibRy9gcTqr9Ajhd1r8NAx2FHxC8PKdcZEsG4ZE19iepmCS8x"
    },
    "public": {
        "address": "1BrUfC75qyLQxxp7qcisfaMmwRMECo4ETC",
        "hex": "037a7e546b2d9ecd9aa99d63c5d6eb4b4cc6880a6a7df8a02a2d83bc4e6b1022ab",
        "hex_uncompressed": "047a7e546b2d9ecd9aa99d63c5d6eb4b4cc6880a6a7df8a02a2d83bc4e6b1022abcd2a6af5c8e36d74779e23d6be11fc0aaf923b7269d2d43b39dc970df8e98449"
    }
}

The seed can be any string, preferably with a lot of entropy. You can also pipe in entropy via standard input by specifying a dash for the seed:

$  openssl rand 10000 | moneywagon generate-keypair ppc - | python -mjson.tool
{
    "private": {
        "hex": "a937be15ff2e7b9313c38714d608180d2ae9a8732e91adead3f666da51bee03301",
        "hex_uncompressed": "a937be15ff2e7b9313c38714d608180d2ae9a8732e91adead3f666da51bee033",
        "wif": "UAnKzDUDpKorVCCLcL4yjPvVM3RstB8NaqE5VSVvipg1DSyEB7WU",
        "wif_uncompressed": "7A1kixqm91BcgU1JaqGrZGAQBtJRDW2fsiHZHQuKWsDv4nGD5jq"
    },
    "public": {
        "address": "PWCL5zURy3aeGdpH4tu1NBVMkPyKMm3Hwk",
        "hex": "0392a2b02487ae4b0a0a23aaab27573d40643e9aa64fe2b8822b190c01b0b04311",
        "hex_uncompressed": "0492a2b02487ae4b0a0a23aaab27573d40643e9aa64fe2b8822b190c01b0b0431149b353eecdd3cac0de024835a22021b84a12ba820918786e67c185e13d8b4887"
    }
}