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This type of Bitcoin relays mainly on three algorithms to generate the bitcoin address. ECDSA, SHA-256 and Base58Check encoding. The following steps show how the process works;

1. ​ Take the private key which will be used to generate the public key by the ECDSA algorithm.
2. Figure out the corresponding public key generated by the ECDSA- the output length will be 65 bytes, 1 byte is 0X04, the next 32 bytes will be the X position of the elliptic curve point, the final 32 bytes will be the Y position of the same points.
3. Apply SHA-256 hashing algorithm on the key, the output will be 256 1bytes always. 4.​ Perform RIPEMD-160 hashing function to the given result from the previous process.
4. Add a version byte to the front of the hash output-usually 0X00 will be added. ​
5. Perform SHA-256 hash algorithm to the output of the previous point.
6. Take the previous stage as an input to perform SHA-256 one more time.
7. Extract the first ​ four​ bytes of the output from the hash value as the ​ address checksum​.
8. Take the address checksum value and append it to the​ point number.
9. Convert the output to Base58Check Encoding ​ to get the address​.

I used Magma to implement it.