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by CydeWeys 2029 days ago
Satoshi Nakamoto came up with the Base58 encoding in the original Bitcoin whitepaper. It's fair to credit him in some manner even if he didn't have any direct involvement in this most recent standards doc.
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wcoenen 2029 days ago
> Satoshi Nakamoto came up with the Base58 encoding in the original Bitcoin whitepaper

There is no mention of Base58 in the whitepaper. http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

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CydeWeys 2029 days ago
Sorry, it was in the code repo when he released Bitcoin.
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hda111 2029 days ago
I would doubt that he wrote this article. There was no public appearance of him in the last ten years.
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CydeWeys 2029 days ago
"It's fair to credit him in some manner even if he didn't have any direct involvement in this most recent standards doc."
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