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A binary-to-text encoding scheme used by Solana (and Bitcoin) for representing public keys and signatures as human-readable strings. Base58 uses alphanumeric characters excluding visually ambiguous ones (0, O, I, l). A Solana pubkey is 32 bytes encoded as a ~44-character Base58 string. Base64 is used for transaction serialization and account data display.