CoinsAddressValidator

This gem allows you to check if virtual coin address is valid and retrieve information about it.

Supported coins:

Bitcoin (BTC),
DASH (DASH),
Dogecoin (DOGE),
Litecoin (LTC),
Namecoin (NMC),
Peercoin (PPC),
Primecoin (XPM)

If you find this gem useful please send few coins for coffee:

BTC: 1HRqmR2dbuHKeNWp478W77NxLzPi63QoKi
LTC: LUzmQEYEMHxh7Q8JWh3vjW2BYCGd8VxANF
DASH: XtPu4gA71zMdp37x3XiYdG2U25UA85Gq1w

Thank you! :)

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'coins_address_validator'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install coins_address_validator

Usage

This gem has two public methods:

is_address_valid?()

which checks if address passed as a parameter is valid BASE58 string, has correct length and checksum from decoded address is equal to first four bytes of SHA256(SHA256(h160))

Second one:

get_address_info()

returns information about network (Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc.), network symbol and type of address.

Contributing

Fork it ( https://github.com/Hothza/coins_address_validator/fork )
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create a new Pull Request