Add quick overview about addresses to doc.go.

Closes #4.
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Dave Collins 2014-12-22 13:39:22 -06:00
parent 97fea16721
commit 8180321217

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doc.go
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@ -18,5 +18,29 @@ A Tx defines a bitcoin transaction that provides more efficient manipulation of
raw wire protocol transactions. It memoizes the hash for the transaction on its
first access so subsequent accesses don't have to repeat the relatively
expensive hashing operations.
Address Overview
The Address interface provides an abstraction for a Bitcoin address. While the
most common type is a pay-to-pubkey-hash, Bitcoin already supports others and
may well support more in the future. This package currently provides
implementations for the pay-to-pubkey, pay-to-pubkey-hash, and
pay-to-script-hash address types.
To decode/encode an address:
// NOTE: The default network is only used for address types which do not
// already contain that information. At this time, that is only
// pay-to-pubkey addresses.
addrString := "04678afdb0fe5548271967f1a67130b7105cd6a828e03909a67962" +
"e0ea1f61deb649f6bc3f4cef38c4f35504e51ec112de5c384df7ba0b8d57" +
"8a4c702b6bf11d5f"
defaultNet := &btcnet.MainNetParams
addr, err := btcutil.DecodeAddress(addrString, defaultNet)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
return
}
fmt.Println(addr.EncodeAddress())
*/
package btcutil