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by stavros 1365 days ago
Yeah, I don't know why 1 was left in there, seems like a lost opportunity. Discarding l, I, 0, O, but then leaving 1? I wonder why.
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I can only assume it was for a superstitious reason so that the original address prefixes could be a 1. This is the only sense I can make from it.