diff --git a/docs/baseN/README.md b/docs/baseN/README.md index 27c68d7..561e63a 100644 --- a/docs/baseN/README.md +++ b/docs/baseN/README.md @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ # Base58/Base64 Bytestring Encoding Schemas +![Image explainer](./baseN-thumb.png) + Base64 and Base58 are two algorithms for encoding byte arrays to plain text. I initially assumed these were two instances of the same "Base N" algorithm. **This is not the case. These are two fundamentally different algorithms.** diff --git a/docs/baseN/baseN-thumb.png b/docs/baseN/baseN-thumb.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..28db291 Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/baseN/baseN-thumb.png differ