Bitcoin Cash address (CashAddr)

ID bitcoin_cash_address

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Address of Bitcoin Cash in the CashAddr format: the network prefix bitcoincash (it may be omitted), a colon and a Base32 payload with a version byte, the hash and a 40-bit BCH-code checksum. With a 160-bit hash the payload has 42 characters and starts with q (P2PKH) or p (P2SH). Lower case is preferred and upper case is allowed, never mixed. Addresses with longer hashes, testnet prefixes (bchtest, bchreg) and legacy Base58 addresses, which look like Bitcoin's, are not matched.

Parent datatype: Cryptocurrency address crypto_address
Categories: Cryptocurrency
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Quality: 80/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^(?:(?:bitcoincash:)?[qp][02-9ac-hj-np-z]{41}|(?:BITCOINCASH:)?[QP][02-9AC-HJ-NP-Z]{41})$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
bitcoincash:qpm2qsznhks23z7629mms6s4cwef74vcwvy22gdx6a	P2PKH example of the CashAddr specification (legacy 1BpEi6DfDAUFd7GtittLSdBeYJvcoaVggu)
bitcoincash:ppm2qsznhks23z7629mms6s4cwef74vcwvn0h829pq	P2SH example of the CashAddr specification
qr95sy3j9xwd2ap32xkykttr4cvcu7as4y0qverfuy	Example of the CashAddr specification without the prefix
bitcoincash:Qpm2qsznhks23z7629mms6s4cwef74vcwvy22gdx6a invalid	mixed case is not allowed

Translations

Language	Name	Description
Russian	Адрес Bitcoin Cash (CashAddr)

Sources

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