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Bitcom Protocol Prefix space efficiency #10

Open breavyn opened 5 years ago

breavyn commented 5 years ago

Currently a base58 encoded bitcoin address is used as a protocol identifier.

For example WeatherSV uses "1LtyME6b5AnMopQrBPLk4FGN8UBuhxKqrn", a 34 byte string. In its raw form, this data requires 25 20 bytes.

Base58 Pro's - inbuilt checksum, human readable (kind of) Base58 Con's - it's big

Is it worth switching to the raw form for efficiencies sake?