Command Equivalence

It is possible to achieve the same objective using different combinations of commands.

Building a Payment Address

$ bx ec-new 9bb08de6bcc361df764c1edd9cc93059 | bx ec-to-public | bx bitcoin160 | bx address-encode

57b3a15beaf761a0dde5ee5da8634a80fa6508169feb26f62ca75573d7ae7ef6
031c9e4b5e45e636eac2b0bfff36530d6a048049dac66e88d3797371fadacb5040
0423c50b6c4d2caa9fb3822eb0bc8e1f116ab43b
1NtZ6Dsj6vumHnAmA87aqLy6JhrsbpPKP

The same address results from the more general base58check-encode command in place of address-encode.

$ bx ec-new 9bb08de6bcc361df764c1edd9cc93059 | bx ec-to-public | bx bitcoin160 | bx base58check-encode

57b3a15beaf761a0dde5ee5da8634a80fa6508169feb26f62ca75573d7ae7ef6
031c9e4b5e45e636eac2b0bfff36530d6a048049dac66e88d3797371fadacb5040
0423c50b6c4d2caa9fb3822eb0bc8e1f116ab43b
1NtZ6Dsj6vumHnAmA87aqLy6JhrsbpPKP

The same address results from the combination of the more general wrap-encode and base58-encode commands in place of base58check-encode.

$ bx ec-new 9bb08de6bcc361df764c1edd9cc93059 | bx ec-to-public | bx bitcoin160 | bx wrap-encode | bx base58-encode

57b3a15beaf761a0dde5ee5da8634a80fa6508169feb26f62ca75573d7ae7ef6
031c9e4b5e45e636eac2b0bfff36530d6a048049dac66e88d3797371fadacb5040
0423c50b6c4d2caa9fb3822eb0bc8e1f116ab43b
000423c50b6c4d2caa9fb3822eb0bc8e1f116ab43b5728093a
1NtZ6Dsj6vumHnAmA87aqLy6JhrsbpPKP

The same address results from the combination of the more general sha256 and ripemd160 commands in place of bitcoin160.

$ bx ec-new 9bb08de6bcc361df764c1edd9cc93059 | bx ec-to-public | bx sha256 | bx ripemd160 | bx wrap-encode | bx base58-encode

57b3a15beaf761a0dde5ee5da8634a80fa6508169feb26f62ca75573d7ae7ef6
031c9e4b5e45e636eac2b0bfff36530d6a048049dac66e88d3797371fadacb5040
bbd353249bf2360955621268b7db701454a20e7b5b2f42536c10a97712ad4895
0423c50b6c4d2caa9fb3822eb0bc8e1f116ab43b
000423c50b6c4d2caa9fb3822eb0bc8e1f116ab43b5728093a
1NtZ6Dsj6vumHnAmA87aqLy6JhrsbpPKP