This script generates bitcoin coin burning addresses with a custom bitcoin address prefix. The symbols at the end of the btc burning address are made for checksum verification.

bitcoin-burn-address-generator.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""bitcoin-burn-address-generator.py: This script generates bitcoin coin burning addresses with a custom bitcoin address prefix. 
                                      The symbols at the end of the burning btc address are made for checksum verification."""

__author__      = "Daniel Gockel"
__website__     = "https://www.10xrecovery.org/"

import sys

from base58 import b58encode, b58decode
from hashlib import sha256

base58_characters = "123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz"

bitcoin_address_prefix = "1XRecovery"  # should start with 1..., Version prefix (hex) for Bitcoin Address is 0x00

if __name__ == "__main__":
    for char in bitcoin_address_prefix:
        if char not in base58_characters:
            sys.exit("Character '%s' is not a valid base58 character." % char)

    address_length = len(bitcoin_address_prefix)
    if address_length < 34:
        bitcoin_address_prefix = bitcoin_address_prefix + ((34 - address_length) * "X")
    else:
        bitcoin_address_prefix = bitcoin_address_prefix[:34]

    # bitcoin address will have 34 characters from now on

    # decode address
    decoded_address = b58decode(bitcoin_address_prefix)[:-4]  # cut 4 bytes for checksum at the end
    checksum = sha256(sha256(decoded_address).digest()).digest()[:4]
    print("Your Bitcoin burning address is: " + b58encode(decoded_address + checksum).decode("utf-8"))

thanks, works with custom coins too

thanks, works with custom coins too

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