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Yep. The comparisons page mentions this: https://base32h.github.io/comparisons#octoquinquagesimal-58 https://base32h.github.io/comparisons#octoquinquagesimal-5
by yellowapple 6y ago
Yep. The comparisons page mentions this: https://base32h.github.io/comparisons#octoquinquagesimal-58 https://base32h.github.io/comparisons#octoquinquagesimal-58
tl;dr: base58 is more compact than any base-32 system, but (in addition to being unfriendly to byte-alignment) it relies on case-sensitivity, which makes it a non-starter for filenames on Windows or (by default) macOS and makes it annoying to read aloud ("Was that an uppercase or lowercase C?").