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Bitcoin uses the naive scheme, why?

• lifthrasiir 6y ago
  Probably because: 1. There is no small power of 58 that is only slightly more than integral powers of 256. The closest one I can imagine is 57^11 ~= 1.1186 * 2^64. 2. Bitcoin addresses are short enough that trivial bignum calculation is not a bottleneck.