Need Help Understanding Base58Check Encoding...

[ExabyteMiner]

OK, I am very close, I am able to reliably produce correct results all the way up to the actual Base58 encoding now.

After finding and adding the checksum to the end of my string from step 3, I have:

Code:

8044d00f6eb2e5491cd7ab7e7185d81b67a23c4980f62b2ed0914d32b7eb1c55815b0e9051

Now, how do I do the final Base58 encoding to turn that result into:

Code:

5JLbJxi9koHHvyFEAERHLYwG7VxYATnf8YdA9fiC6kXMghkYXpk

[1714474496]

1714474496

[achow101]

OK, I am very close, I am able to reliably produce correct results all the way up to the actual Base58 encoding now.

After finding and adding the checksum to the end of my string from step 3, I have:

Code:

8044d00f6eb2e5491cd7ab7e7185d81b67a23c4980f62b2ed0914d32b7eb1c55815b0e9051

Now, how do I do the final Base58 encoding to turn that result into:

Code:

5JLbJxi9koHHvyFEAERHLYwG7VxYATnf8YdA9fiC6kXMghkYXpk

The base58 conversion is specific to Bitcoin. There is pseudocode and a chart of characters here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding#Base58_symbol_chart

[ExabyteMiner]

OK, I am very close, I am able to reliably produce correct results all the way up to the actual Base58 encoding now.

After finding and adding the checksum to the end of my string from step 3, I have:

Code:

8044d00f6eb2e5491cd7ab7e7185d81b67a23c4980f62b2ed0914d32b7eb1c55815b0e9051

Now, how do I do the final Base58 encoding to turn that result into:

Code:

5JLbJxi9koHHvyFEAERHLYwG7VxYATnf8YdA9fiC6kXMghkYXpk

The base58 conversion is specific to Bitcoin. There is pseudocode and a chart of characters here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding#Base58_symbol_chart

Sorry, again, I am self-taught when it comes to coding, I do not fully understand the pseudocode... From what I understand I have to change "8044d00f6eb2e5491cd7ab7e7185d81b67a23c4980f62b2ed0914d32b7eb1c55815b0e9051" into a "big integer" and then perform some math on it. How do i convert a plain text string to a "big integer"?

[achow101]

Sorry, again, I am self-taught when it comes to coding, I do not fully understand the pseudocode... From what I understand I have to change "8044d00f6eb2e5491cd7ab7e7185d81b67a23c4980f62b2ed0914d32b7eb1c55815b0e9051" into a "big integer" and then perform some math on it. How do i convert a plain text string to a "big integer"?

It means treat that hex string as a really big integer encoded in hex (base16). The easiest thing is to go to a site like http://www.wolframalpha.com/ and type that string followed by " convert to decimal" and it will give you a really large decimal integer. Then you just use that number to do the conversions.

Also, when working with hex, you always need to think of hex not as a string but as bytes and integers.

[ExabyteMiner]

Sorry, again, I am self-taught when it comes to coding, I do not fully understand the pseudocode... From what I understand I have to change "8044d00f6eb2e5491cd7ab7e7185d81b67a23c4980f62b2ed0914d32b7eb1c55815b0e9051" into a "big integer" and then perform some math on it. How do i convert a plain text string to a "big integer"?

It means treat that hex string as a really big integer encoded in hex (base16). The easiest thing is to go to a site like http://www.wolframalpha.com/ and type that string followed by " convert to decimal" and it will give you a really large decimal integer. Then you just use that number to do the conversions.

Also, when working with hex, you always need to think of hex not as a string but as bytes and integers.

When i go to that site and type:

Code:

8044d00f6eb2e5491cd7ab7e7185d81b67a23c4980f62b2ed0914d32b7eb1c55815b0e9051 convert to decimal

I get:

Code:

Wolfram|Alpha doesn't understand your query

Showing instead result for query: decimal

[achow101]

Sorry, again, I am self-taught when it comes to coding, I do not fully understand the pseudocode... From what I understand I have to change "8044d00f6eb2e5491cd7ab7e7185d81b67a23c4980f62b2ed0914d32b7eb1c55815b0e9051" into a "big integer" and then perform some math on it. How do i convert a plain text string to a "big integer"?

It means treat that hex string as a really big integer encoded in hex (base16). The easiest thing is to go to a site like http://www.wolframalpha.com/ and type that string followed by " convert to decimal" and it will give you a really large decimal integer. Then you just use that number to do the conversions.

Also, when working with hex, you always need to think of hex not as a string but as bytes and integers.

When i go to that site and type:

Code:

8044d00f6eb2e5491cd7ab7e7185d81b67a23c4980f62b2ed0914d32b7eb1c55815b0e9051 convert to decimal

I get:

Code:

Wolfram|Alpha doesn't understand your query

Showing instead result for query: decimal

Oh, you need to prepend it with a 0x and use base10, not decimal, sorry. So 0x8044d.... convert to base10