NOTES.md

Notes

Todos

!!! - for hex add check for even number of chars only e.g. 0x00 but NOT 0x0 or such - why? why not?

• [str].pack('H*') will NOT work properly?
• (auto-)add missing 0 to even out ? or report errror?? e.g.

  if hex.length % 2 != 0
    hex = "0" + hex
  end

Base58

• https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/base58
• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding
• https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-msporny-base58-01.html

More ruby base58 gems / libraries

• https://github.com/dougal/base58 - encoding/decoding integers to/from Base58. Supports Flickr, Bitcoin, and Ripple alphabets - note: defaults to Flickr alphabet!!

  • https://github.com/dougal/base58/blob/master/lib/base58.rb
  • https://github.com/dougal/base58/blob/master/test/test_base58.rb

• https://github.com/oleganza/btcruby

  • https://github.com/oleganza/btcruby/blob/master/lib/btcruby/base58.rb
  • https://github.com/oleganza/btcruby/blob/master/spec/base58_spec.rb

More base58 libs in go, elixir, python etc.

• https://github.com/decred/base58

  • https://github.com/decred/base58/blob/master/base58.go
  • https://github.com/decred/base58/blob/master/base58_test.go

• https://hexdocs.pm/basefiftyeight/B58.html

  • https://hexdocs.pm/basefiftyeight/faq.html

• https://pypi.org/project/base58/