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bitcoin brain wallet private key generator. enter the seed / brain wallet phrase and it returns the private key in hex
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # creates a private key from a 'brain wallet' | |
| if [ -z "$1" ]; then | |
| echo "provide the bitcoin brain wallet seed to get the private key:"; | |
| read SEED; | |
| else | |
| SEED=$1; | |
| fi | |
| echo "seed (brain wallet): $SEED"; | |
| echo -n "bitcoin private key: "; | |
| echo -n "$SEED" | openssl dgst -sha256 |
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