Generate Bitcoin Cash receiving addresses from an Electron-Cash xpub key

Introduction The aim of this tutorial is to describe a way of generating unique Bitcoin Cash receiving addresses without having the private keys or seed present on that machine. Particularly useful if you want to build point of sale or e-commerce applications. BIP 32 Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets (wallets which can be shared partially or entirely with different systems, each with or without the ability to spend coins) offer this funtionality through its deterministic key generation scheme, more precicely the use of an xpub key. [Read More]

Electron Cash one of the first wallets to integrate new CashAddress format

CashAddress Electron Cash is one of the first BCH wallets to fully integrate the new CashAddr format spec for Bitcoin Cash addresses, nicely ahead of schedule. Allowing you to easily flip back and forth between the old and new CashAddr format and integrating a handy address converter tool. Since there is still some confusion and uncertainty about this change, I thought a few pictures could be worth a thousand words. [Read More]