Bitcoin address validator. 1000% realshit

BTC_address_validator.py

import base58
import binascii
from hashlib import sha256

# base58 src: https://github.com/keis/base58

def verifyBTCaddr(addr):
	try:
		base58Decoder = base58.b58decode(addr).hex()
		prefixAndHash = base58Decoder[:len(base58Decoder)-8]
		checksum = base58Decoder[len(base58Decoder)-8:]

		hash_ = prefixAndHash
		for x in range(1,3):
			hash_ = sha256(binascii.unhexlify(hash_)).hexdigest()

		if(checksum == hash_[:8]):
			return True
		else:
			return False
	except:
		return False