Eric Lombrozo [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-01-14 📝 Original message:I would highly recommend ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-01-14
📝 Original message:I would highly recommend NOT using Base58 for anything except stuff that is
to be copy/pasted by the enduser.

Internally, pubkeys are DER-encoded integers.

- Eric
On Jan 14, 2015 2:54 PM, "Jeffrey Paul" <jp at eeqj.com> wrote:

>
> > On 20150114, at 09:39, devrandom <c1.sf-bitcoin at niftybox.net> wrote:
> >
> > At CryptoCorp we recommend to our customers that they sort
> > lexicographically by the public key bytes of the leaf public keys. i.e.
> > the same as BitPay.
>
> To clarify: the raw bytes of the public key itself, not the ascii base58
> representation of the pubkey hash - right?
>
> -jp
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