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Bitcoin Checksum on Bash

Checksum is often used in Bitcoin when generating public key, address. Checksum is a simple method for error-checking data [1].

In Bitcoin blockchain the checksum is generated by running SHA256 function two times in a row.

Important note: need to use sha256 in binary mode for binary data.

 

Bitcoin checksum on Linux Bash: sha256sum

This is an example used on learnmeabitcoin [1] and this bash analogue gives the same result: