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Modern bitcoin addresses use a base-32 character set that leaves out some of the most ambiguous pairs and also permutes the address ordering so that the most vi
by nullc 3y ago
Modern bitcoin addresses use a base-32 character set that leaves out some of the most ambiguous pairs and also permutes the address ordering so that the most visually similar remaining characters produce single bit errors which are better handled by the addresses error detecting (and potentially correcting) code.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawiki#user-content-Specification https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawi...