https://github.com/rubberazer/wall_e_t
Tools to develop Bitcoin wallets in C
https://github.com/rubberazer/wall_e_t
bip173 bip32 bip39 bip84 bitcoin bitcoin-wallet c segwit-address
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Tools to develop Bitcoin wallets in C
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/rubberazer/wall_e_t
- Owner: Rubberazer
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2025-01-02T09:35:38.000Z (6 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-02-18T23:17:27.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-18T23:28:10.080Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: bip173, bip32, bip39, bip84, bitcoin, bitcoin-wallet, c, segwit-address
- Language: C
- Homepage:
- Size: 319 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# wall_e_t
Bitcoin wallet and the collection of functions to build your own, all written in C.
This software implements the following standards or BIPs (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals):
- [BIP32](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki) Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets
- [BIP39](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki) Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys
- [BIP44](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0044.mediawiki) Multi-Account Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets
- [BIP84](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0084.mediawiki) Derivation scheme for P2WPKH based accounts
- [BIP173](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawiki) Base32 address format for native v0-16 witness outputs
## Acknowledgments
This software package is built upon the shoulders of the [libgcrypt](https://www.gnupg.org/software/libgcrypt/index.html), [SQLite](https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html) and [libcurl](https://curl.se/docs/copyright.html) libraries, all honour and glory to those developers.
Also code snippets from the reference implementation of [BIP173](https://github.com/sipa/bech32/tree/master/ref) have been used to calculate bech32 type of address checksums.
Balances are coming through a web API, more specifically, this one: https://blockchain.info
## Dependencies
In order to compile, you will need to install libgcrypt, SQLite and libcurl first e.g. on a Debian based system this should be as simple as:
sudo apt install libgcrypt20-dev && sudo apt install libsqlite3-dev && \
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
## Test vectors
Some, but not all of the test vectors included at the end of the concerned BIPs, plus numerous (lots) of tries here: https://iancoleman.io/bip39, all looking good at this point, extremely useful site by the way. Also, Greg's site is an absolute must, highly recommended: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/.
## Is it safe?
Very early development so at this point you shouldn't put any serious funds into the wallet itself, the way I look at this project is more educational e.g. example of how to develop a wallet in C and not using the ubiquitous OpenSSL. So far it is better to use the code to play yourself and maybe create your own wallets and see how it is done.
## Tests
You can just compile the tests:
make tests
This above will produce 5 executable files, if you run this one: ./test_BIP84 what you will get is basically a full BIP84 wallet derived from mnemonics up to the change addresse(s), read the code to see what is going on.
## The Wallet
You should compile with:
make wallet
This will generate an executable: wall_e_t, options are:
### Create wallet
This will create a wallet with a mnemonic phrase so you can recover it in the future
./wall_e_t -create
### Recover wallet
This will recover your wallet starting from a mnemonic phrase and an optional passphrase
./wall_e_t -recover
### Receive
This will create a new bitcoin address so you can receive coins, and store this address in your wallet
./wall_e_t -receive
### Show key
This will show your Private Root key on screen
./wall_e_t -show key
### Show Addresses
This will show all your bitcoin addresses on screen
./wall_e_t -show addresses
### Show keys
This will show all your bitcoin addresses with their respective private keys on screen
./wall_e_t -show keys
### Balance
This will show on screen the amount of satoshis per bitcoin address and the totals in your wallet
./wall_e_t -balance
### Transfer (not ready yet)
To transfer your coins to some other address
./wall_e_t -transfer