Create the Base58Check section

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Specification of the Bitcoin Cash protocols and consensus

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Create the Base58Check section #21

Closed lugaxker closed 4 years ago

lugaxker commented 4 years ago

This section describes the Base58Check encoding. It is used by Bitcoin Cash wallets to encode and decode private keys, extended private keys and extended public keys. It is also used to encode addresses (legacy format), even if the CashAddr encoding is recommended.

Feel free to edit it!

lugaxker commented 4 years ago

Thanks!

I used great sources :

Andreas Antonopoulos' Mastering Bitcoin: https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/ch04.asciidoc
The Base58Check article of Bitcoin Wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding

I plan to do the same thing for the CashAddr encoding.

dagurval commented 4 years ago

Awesome, thanks!