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Create a payment address with an embedded record of binary data.

$ bx address-embed --help

Usage: bx address-embed [-h] [--config VALUE] [--version VALUE] [DATA]   

Info: Create a payment address with an embedded record of binary data.   

Options (named):

-c [--config]        The path to the configuration settings file.        
-h [--help]          Get a description and instructions for this command.
-v [--version]       The desired payment address version.                

Arguments (positional):

DATA                 The binary data to encode as Base16. This can be    
                     text or any other data. If not specified the data is
                     read from STDIN.

The data is hashed as RIPEMD160 and then embedded in a script of the form: dup hash160 [ RIPEMD160 ] equalverify checksig. The script is then serialized, hashed as RIPEMD160, and used with the specified version to create a Bitcoin payment address.

See the list of Bitcoin address prefixes for a detailed description of version.

Example 1

$ bx address-embed "Satoshi Nakamoto"

168LnUjqoJLie1PW5dTaF2vKUU9Jf6Fe4a

Example 2

piped input

$ echo Satoshi Nakamoto | bx address-embed

Satoshi Nakamoto 
168LnUjqoJLie1PW5dTaF2vKUU9Jf6Fe4a

Example 3

--version 111 (testnet)

$ bx address-embed -v 111 "Satoshi Nakamoto"

mkeJ5XppcKmyR7s7oCRx4x8eLTk1Xrso8t