Skip to content

Bitcom Protocol Prefix space efficiency #10

@breavyn

Description

@breavyn

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?

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions