3/20/2017

👨‍💻 Base32 Address Format Proposed

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On March 20, 2017, Greg Maxwell and Peter Wuille proposed Base32 as a replacement for the outdated Base58 Bitcoin address format. Base32 addresses are more efficient and are used in SegWit transactions.

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