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by IdiotSavage 36 days ago
More fun facts:

Omitting those characters makes it good for generating passwords if they need to be typed in by hand.

Double-clicking a base58 string always selects the whole string and it doesn't wrap accidentally, thanks to missing / and +, so it's also convenient to copy and paste.

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Unfortunately, no special characters means that a base58 string will often be rejected as a secure enough password.