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The previous post began by saying “Bitcoin’s Wallet Import Format (WIF) is essentially Base58 encoding with a checksum.” More specifically, WIF uses Base58Check encoding. This post will fill in the missing details and show how to carry out computing Base58Check in Python. There are multiple ways to stub your toe doing this because it involves […] The post Base58Check encoding in Python first appeared on John D. Cook....