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by Dylan16807 911 days ago
Base64 doesn't need padding so that one's easy.

No special characters... I mean it's true, but there's not many places I'm worried about inability to mix in some - and _.

Base58 also avoids a couple confusable characters, but that only matters when copying by hand, and if I'm copying by hand I'd rather use base32.