emojaddress

Emoji mnemonic for Ethereum and Bitcoin addresses.

Features

Bitcoin and Ethereum address are hard to short-memorize when you navigate websites like etherscan.io or blockchain.info. This project is to ease that

• Transalates address into mnemonic
• Supports mnemonic for English, Chinese and Emoji

Deterministic wallets use mnemonic for private key. The same idea can be applied to public address. It's a matter of encoding eventually. The BTC and Ethereum public addresses are based on a 20 bytes (160 bit) integer. Each dictionary's size is 2048. The address is encoded in 15 mnemonic to cover the entropy.

The JavaScript version is at JS emojaddress

Install

> pip install emojaddress

Only supports Python3

Example

In [1]: from emojaddress.address import Address
In [2]: address = Address()
# see examples in these test cases

• See example usages here
• The difference in an Etherscan page

Credits

• BIP dictionary based on bitcoin project
• Unicode Emoji Unicode Emoji
• Emoji unicodes are copied from the Emoji Python project

Credits2

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.