Base58 is heavily used in various circles where I live (various things Hyperledger/Sovrin; mainstream cryptocurrency wallets I use; peer DIDs; etc). It is always with the Bitcoin alphabet, never Flickr's or one of the more exotic variants. I, too, have never seen line-breaks in it. On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 1:43 PM Christopher Allen < ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com> wrote: > I'm trying to get an understanding of the use of base58 and base58check in > technical specifications (not standards), in particular, how broad the > usage is of bae58 in the non-IETF/W3C standards based blockchain > communities. > > Base58 similar to Base64 but has been modified to avoid both > non-alphanumeric characters and letters which might look ambiguous when > printed. Base58 achieves 73% efficiency. Like Base64URL, it avoids conflict > with URI reserved characters, but it doesn't seem to say anything about > forbidding line-break characters (but I've never seen linebreaks in a > base58). > > It has been argued: "We reject Base58 and Base58Check (for use in a URI) > due to their lack of widespread adoption." > > But just because the IETF and W3C standards communities this is true, > isn't necessarily a sufficient argument that it lacks "widespread > adoption". > > — Christopher Allen >Received on Friday, 24 April 2020 19:59:43 UTC
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