From: Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach•de>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] A BIP proposal for segwit addresses
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:16:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oarjko$8fp$1@blaine.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBh0sFA7b6a+48Oojwy655GB9W6Th8JiCpd+2ruQjPev8Q@mail.gmail.com>
Why use Base 32 when the QR code alphanumeric mode allows 44 characters?
In Bitcoin Wallet, I use Base 43 (alphabet:
"0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$*+-./:") for most efficient QR
code encoding. I only leave out the space character because it gets
replaced by "+" in URLs.
On 03/20/2017 10:35 PM, Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'd like to propose a new BIP for native segwit addresses to replace
> BIP 142. These addresses are not required for segwit, but are more
> efficient, flexible, and nicer to use.
>
> The format is base 32 and uses a simple checksum algorithm with strong
> error detection properties. Reference code in several languages as
> well as a website demonstrating it are included.
>
> You can find the text here:
> https://github.com/sipa/bech32/blob/master/bip-witaddr.mediawiki
>
> Cheers,
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-21 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-20 21:35 Pieter Wuille
2017-03-21 16:16 ` Andreas Schildbach [this message]
2017-03-21 19:14 ` Peter Todd
2017-03-29 10:07 ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-03-30 4:50 ` Lucas Ontivero
2017-05-07 21:39 ` Pieter Wuille
2017-05-07 22:34 ` Peter Todd
2017-05-20 20:13 ` Pieter Wuille
2018-07-26 13:43 ` Russell O'Connor
2018-07-26 14:31 ` Russell O'Connor
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