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blockchain.address.decode

blockchain.address.decode

Decode a Bitcoin Cash or a Nexa address to its raw payload. This method is potentially useful for clients needing to see the encoded contents of a address but lacking the local libraries necessary to decode them.

Signature

Function: blockchain.address.decode(address)

Version added: Rostrum 7.0

  • address

    Address encoded as a CashAddr string (with or without prefix). Legacy addresses (base58) are also supported.

Result

The decoded payload of the address and the type of data it represents.

Example Result

{
  "payload": "96cbbc84783888e4cc971ae8acf86dd3c1a41937",
  "type": "p2pkh",
  "is_token_aware": "false"
}