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A comment on Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree. Parent comment

Re:Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree by ChrisClark on Thursday August 31, 2017 @12:19PM (#15141361)
> Confused characters in alphabet?

That's really the only reason I was saying I liked base58. Because it removes those confusing characters compared to base64 or others.

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Re:Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree by kobeya on Thursday August 31, 2017 @09:19PM (#15145417)
Ah, but it doesn't do a very good job of that. It only removed a few pairings, and made some odd choices at that. Hence why I list it as one of the issues.
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