---
name: "bip32gen"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python3-bip32utils"
version: "0.0~git20170118.dd9c541-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bip32gen"
---

# bip32gen(1)

Create hierarchical deterministic wallet addresses

## NAME

bip32gen - Create hierarchical deterministic wallet addresses

## SYNOPSIS

**bip32gen** \[*options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **bip32gen** command.

The bip32utils library is a pure Python implementation of Bitcoin hierarchical deterministic wallet ("HD Wallet") ECDSA key generation as specified in BIP0032 (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal #0032).

## POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

- **chain**

  List of hierarchical key specifiers

## OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS

- **-h, --help**

  Show this help message and exit

- **-x, --input-hex**

  Input supplied as hex-encoded ascii

- **-X, --output-hex**

  Output generated (where applicable) as hex-encoded ascii

- **-i \[type\], --input-type \[type\]**

  Source material to generate key, where type can be: entropy,xprv,xpub

- **-n AMOUNT, --amount AMOUNT**

  Amount of entropy to to read (bits), None for all of input

- **-f FROM\_FILE, --from-file FROM\_FILE**

  Filespec of input data, '-' for stdin

- **--o OUTPUT\_TYPE, --output-type OUTPUT\_TYPE**

  Output types, comma separated, from addr\|privkey\|wif\|pubkey\|xprv\|xpub\|chain

- **-v, --verbose**

  Verbose output, not for machine parsing

- **-d, --debug**

  Enable debugging output

- **-t, --testnet**

  Use testnet formatted

## AUTHOR

bip32gen was written by Johnathan Corgan  \<johnathan@corganlabs.com\>

This manual page was written by Josue Ortega \<josue@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).