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title: Encoding description: Utilities for encoding information in bitcoin standard formats.
Encoding
Description
The bitcore.Encoding
namespace contains utilities for encoding information in common formats in the bitcoin ecosystem.
Base58 & Base58Check
Two classes are provided: Base58
and Base58Check
. The first one merely encodes/decodes a set of bytes in base58 format. The second one will also take the double sha256
hash of the information and append the last 4 bytes of the hash as a checksum when encoding, and check this checksum when decoding.
BufferReader & BufferWriter
These classes are used internally to write information in buffers.