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In preparation for release add a changlelog entry and bump the version. I'm not 100% sure that this release is API breaking, dependencies definitely changed. The rest might be only additives but I didn't bother looking exactly because I think its better to bump the minor version and err on the side of caution. Note the hashes 0.13.0 dependency stays in the dependency graph because of secp, we can update secp after releasing `hashes` then update the secp dependency in `rust-bitcoin` thereby removing the `hashes v0.13.0` dependency - phew. |
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README.md
Bitcoin base58 encoding
This crate provides encoding and decoding of base58 strings as defined by the Bitcoin ecosystem including the checksum.
There are a bunch of crates on crates.io that implement base58 encoding and decoding. The more obviously named ones differ from this crate because:
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bitcoin-base58 is transpiled from the C++ code in Bitcoin Core as part of a large long-term transpilation project, whereas this crate is a pure Rust implementation intended to be production-ready and to provide an Rust-idiomatic API.
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base58 implements parsing but does not validate checksums (see
base58check). It may be appropriate in cases where performance is more important than safety. Appears unmaintained. -
base58check Adds checksum to the
base58crate and depends on sha2 for hashing. Appears unmaintained.
This crate uses bitcoin_hashes when hashing to calculate the checksum.
Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV)
This library should always compile with any combination of features on Rust 1.56.1.
Licensing
The code in this project is licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license. We use the SPDX license list and SPDX IDs.