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0ops. 1,OOO-plus parking fine refunds ordered after drivers typed 'O' instead of '0'

Arthur the cat Silver badge

Bitcoin base-58

Generally you won't find me saying much nice about Bitcoin, but their decision to use base-58 encoding was brilliant. No digit 0 or upper case O, no digit 1 or lower case l.

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