github.com/mit-dci/lit@v0.0.0-20221102210550-8c3d3b49f2ce/bech32/README.md (about) 1 ## bech32 in go 2 3 bech32 is an encoding scheme by Pieter Wuille and Greg Maxwell described in a yet-to-be numbered BIP (https://github.com/sipa/bech32/blob/master/bip-witaddr.mediawiki) 4 5 It's a nice improvement over the original base58check encoding used in Bitcoin. 6 7 This code is still in progress but should be compatible with the C and python implementations linked in the BIP.