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# Address
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Represents a bitcoin Address. Addresses became the most popular way to make
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bitcoin transactions. See [the official Bitcoin
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Wiki](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address) for more information.
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The main use that we expect you'll have for the `Address` class in bitcore is
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validating that an address is a valid one, what type of address it is (you may
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be interested on knowning if the address is a simple "pay to public key hash"
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address or a "pay to script hash" address) and what network does the address
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belong to.
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The code to do these validations looks like this:
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```javascript
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var address = new bitcore.Address('1BitcoinAddress...');
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assert(address.network === bitcore.network.livenet);
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// Detect the kind of the address...
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assert(address.scriptType === bitcore.Address.Pay2PubKeyHash);
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```
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There are also static methods for this that work very similarly:
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```javascript
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var address = new bitcore.Address();
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assert(bitcore.Address.isValid('1BitcoinAddress...'));
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assert(bitcore.Address.network('1BitcoinAddress...') === bitcore.network.livenet);
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assert(bitcore.Address.scriptType('1BitcoinAddress...') !== bitcore.Address.Pay2ScriptHash);
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assert(bitcore.Address.scriptType('3MultisigP2SH...') === bitcore.Address.Pay2ScriptHash);
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```
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