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bajsejohannes
on Oct 2, 2023
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Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7
The preference is purely about the amount of characters. I hope no one will ever actually read or write these URLs, but you never know...
matja
on Oct 2, 2023
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Ah in that case, base58 can be useful because it doesn't use characters that may be ambiguous in some fonts (doesn't use: 0/O/I/l , but does use: 1/i)
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