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Title: Satoshi mystery of Base58 Post by: remotemass on February 10, 2015, 03:29:18 AM Any delusional clues on why Satoshi used such particular Base58 set?
Here goes mine: *o*o Re+dit. Li, vi, Rir. It is so lol + li... I read it on reddit in Portuguese reads: "Eu li-o no lido"... Title: Re: Satoshi mystery of Base58 Post by: Shawshank on February 10, 2015, 08:25:19 AM - Avoids characters that are difficult to tell apart. For example: zero and upper case O.
- Lines don't break. You can copy and paste with a double click. Title: Re: Satoshi mystery of Base58 Post by: General_A on February 10, 2015, 01:23:38 PM It is nice to see that my hard work (and the cost of £9000 a year) is finally starting to pay off. As I actually understand what the f*** people are saying.
I did a little research and according to wikipedia: Quote Base58 is a group of binary-to-text encoding schemes used to represent large integers as alphanumeric text. It is similar to Base64 but has been modified to avoid both non-alphanumeric characters and letters which might look ambiguous when printed. It is therefore designed for human users who manually enter the data, copying from some visual source, but also allows easy copy and paste because a double-click will usually select the whole string. For anyone who is interested in what the set looks like: https://i.imgur.com/bB8n6Gr.png As you can see 0 has been omitted as it could be confused with 0, capital I and O have been omitted and lower case l. Interesting... Title: Re: Satoshi mystery of Base58 Post by: Joe_Bauers on February 10, 2015, 09:26:20 PM Satoshi used base 58 because
5*8 =40 The number of syllables in Satoshi's name =7 40/7 =5.714285714285714 which Satoshi found to be an interesting number. Duh?!?!?! Title: Re: Satoshi mystery of Base58 Post by: Gleb Gamow on February 10, 2015, 09:37:05 PM Satoshi used base 58 because 5*8 =40 The number of syllables in Satoshi's name =7 40/7 =5.714285714285714 which Satoshi found to be an interesting number. Duh?!?!?! Just goes to show that Satoshi is rational. Title: Re: Satoshi mystery of Base58 Post by: BittBurger on February 11, 2015, 02:48:26 AM sorry guys but i cant figure out a single word of what are you talking this is too much thecnical for me the algorithm of blocks in bit coin its even not for me let the computer do the find and we porceed with this currency no? Don't you just love how paid signatures lead to posts such as this appearing in nearly every single topic in the forum. ::) I've pretty much stopped coming here because literally every other post is some dude with broken english saying something completely useless (always with an ad in his signature). And I am not exaggerating. Its literally every other post. If I was running this site, that would bother me, and I would restrict advertising in signatures. It will drastically reduce the stupid pointless threads, and pointless posts within threads. Quote I guess the only option left is to bump the Meta thread suggesting to remove signatures entirely. Why? How about just not allowing spam on a forum? Pretty global rule for most forums. Easily enforced. Doesn't affect real people's ability to have sigs. -B- Title: Re: Satoshi mystery of Base58 Post by: BootstrapCoinDev on March 07, 2015, 02:10:46 PM Because they were obviously created by making up a meaningful human readable phrase as the address.
Title: Re: Satoshi mystery of Base58 Post by: CIYAM on March 07, 2015, 02:22:30 PM Why? How about just not allowing spam on a forum? Pretty global rule for most forums. Easily enforced. Doesn't affect real people's ability to have sigs. I think that the problem is now that there is simply so much spam the mods cannot even find time to delete it all (and yes I also have complained numerous times about how shit the posting quality has become to no absolutely avail). |
