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+// Copyright (c) 2014 The btcsuite developers
+// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+/*
+Package base58 provides an API for working with modified base58 and Base58Check
+encodings.
+
+Modified Base58 Encoding
+
+Standard base58 encoding is similar to standard base64 encoding except, as the
+name implies, it uses a 58 character alphabet which results in an alphanumeric
+string and allows some characters which are problematic for humans to be
+excluded.  Due to this, there can be various base58 alphabets.
+
+The modified base58 alphabet used by Bitcoin, and hence this package, omits the
+0, O, I, and l characters that look the same in many fonts and are therefore
+hard to humans to distinguish.
+
+Base58Check Encoding Scheme
+
+The Base58Check encoding scheme is primarily used for Bitcoin addresses at the
+time of this writing, however it can be used to generically encode arbitrary
+byte arrays into human-readable strings along with a version byte that can be
+used to differentiate the same payload.  For Bitcoin addresses, the extra
+version is used to differentiate the network of otherwise identical public keys
+which helps prevent using an address intended for one network on another.
+*/
+package base58