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base58 is case sensitive which hinders readability. When devs work with uuids they typically remember the first few letters ("this is guid abc", "that one is gu
by throwaway35777 2y ago
base58 is case sensitive which hinders readability. When devs work with uuids they typically remember the first few letters ("this is guid abc", "that one is guid 1ac"). Hard to do that in base58.
The coarsest encoding to have this property is Base32 where it remains easy to memorize first few letters without needing to memorize case.