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Base58Check

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A human-friendly encoding used for some address formats that avoids ambiguous characters and includes a checksum. Bitcoin legacy addresses commonly use Base58Check.

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$BCH Bitcoin Cash
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...or "p" for the hash portion) and use a different encoding scheme than Bitcoin's base58check format. This visual distinction makes it immediately clear whether an address b...