Since I didn't find any projects like that on Github, I asked OpenAI's chatGPT to write a hex to base58 C++ function. I'm licensing the resulting code under the MIT license.
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Since Bitcoin uses Base58
Check which adds a checksum at the end of the Base58 string, and not just plain Base58, we need to modify this function as follows (also MIT licensed / AI generated):
It's using OpenSSL by the way, but I have a standalone SHA256 class file (that is
not AI-generated) that does an equivalent job if you want it.
Damn, now I'm worried that I'm going to be obsoleted by a robot
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PS: Since most people will be dealing with binary data when converting the HASH160 to base58(check), I decided to ask chatGPT to make binary to hex conversions as well:
I am so glad I didn't waste $100 on Copilot, this is so much better and more useful (and free!).
What you manage to do with this tool is very impressive, to be honest. Congratulations. Each time I tried to ask it something, about various matters, I got very incomplete/unsatisfactory results, with mistakes and erroneous claims unfortunately.
Which kind of questions did you ask it to get those results precisely?
