On Monday, December 12, 2011 3:56:01 PM Pieter Wuille wrote:
> It seems base58 is actually quite terrible for producing nice
> human-recognizable addresses, even though base58 is specially intended for
> human usage. We'll just have to deal with it, or completely overhaul it
> and move to a saner encoding.
Or both: use this proposal for 20-byte base58 for now, and overhaul it in the
future (maybe when the block chain forks?).
> 0: mainnet pubkey hashes ('1', as before)
> 192: testnet pubnet hashes ('2', instead of 111, 'm' and 'n')
> 5: mainnet script hashes ('3'; for OP_EVAL)
> 196: testnet script hashes ('2', same as normal testnet addresses)
Looks good here.
> 12: mainnet private keys ('Q', 'R' or 'S', instead of 128, '5')
> 204: testnet private keys ('7', instead of 239, '8' and '9')
These are 32-byte, so have no reason IMO to follow the 20-byte proposal.
Since a lot of services are already using version 128 ('5') for bitcoin
private keys, and 128 is "reserved" in the 20-byte proposal, I think it's fair
to leave it alone (for now).
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