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28 lines
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Bitcoin base58 encoding
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This crate provides encoding and decoding of base58 strings as defined by the Bitcoin ecosystem
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including the checksum.
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There are two other crates on crates.io that implement base58 encoding and decoding. This
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crate differs from them because:
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1. [bitcoin-base58](https://crates.io/crates/bitcoin-base58) is transpiled from the C++ code in
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Bitcoin Core as part of a large long-term transpilation project; this crate is a pure Rust
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implementation intended to be production-ready and to provide an Rust-idiomatic API.
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2. [base58](https://crates.io/crates/base58) is incomplete and appears unmaintained as of
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February 2024. It does not validate checksums and will therefore accept invalid Bitcoin
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addresses. It may be appropriate in cases where performance is more important than safety.
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## Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV)
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This library should always compile with any combination of features on **Rust 1.56.1**.
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## Licensing
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The code in this project is licensed under the [Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license](LICENSE).
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We use the [SPDX license list](https://spdx.org/licenses/) and [SPDX IDs](https://spdx.dev/ids/).
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