Post
Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato, FINAL STEP PUBLISHED.... 4.87 BTC GRAND PRIZE!
by
sini
on 04/01/2018, 23:12:04 UTC
If we are on the level of terminology, the more accurate statement would be that WIF is a 51 char string with certain chars excluded.

Yep, you're right.  WIF as 306 bits doesn't really exist outside my convenient mapping from 6 bits onto base58 space.  So my 306 bit definition fails Sad  I take it back.

I mean. Isn't that expected? When encoding values using Bacon you use 5 bits but you only have a dictionary of the characters you need.