Unable to generate private key in node v11.15.0

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Unable to generate private key in node v11.15.0

alko89 opened this issue 5 years ago · 7 comments

Trying to generate private key using node -p "require('btcpay').crypto.generate_keypair()" returns a large object instead of the private key.

Using the same command with node v10.16.0 works as expected:

<Key priv: c5e246de8c156c607658391641d42a1040914c78509c76acc8752947dd4ff091 pub: null >
(node:26425) [DEP0079] DeprecationWarning: Custom inspection function on Objects via .inspect() is deprecated

Answer 1 · 2019-07-14T05:24:19.000Z

@takinbo any idea?

Answer 2 · 2019-07-14T10:29:27.000Z

@alko89 what version of node gives you the large object?

Answer 3 · 2019-07-14T10:44:47.000Z

On v11.15.0. Downgrading solved the issue.

Answer 4 · 2019-10-06T13:36:20.000Z

You can do this instead:

node -p "require('btcpay').crypto.generate_keypair().getPrivate('hex')"

Answer 5 · 2019-10-06T13:43:40.000Z

@takinbo I guess the doc somewhere is outdated.

Answer 6 · 2019-10-06T14:20:23.000Z

fixed by #32

Answer 7 · 2020-03-30T20:04:15.000Z

I ran into this same docs bug. I noticed #32 was merged into branch btcpayserver:dev and not master. This may confuse users that try to use this library for the first time.