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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @BlokchainB 22 Jan \ parent \ on: ❓How Bitcoin Stores/Read Data (Endianness) bitcoin

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530 sats \ 2 replies \ @satsie 24 Jan

Most modern CPUs work in little-endian, so it was likely chosen as a performance optimization. According to this site, Learn Me a Bitcoin (https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/general/little-endian/#why-does-bitcoin-use-little-endian), it's because Satoshi developed bitcoin on a computer with little-endian architecture.

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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 24 Jan

Thanks! I just learned about this from the base58 class but didn’t the answer why little over big. Now I do!

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152 sats \ 0 replies \ @satsie 24 Jan

You're very welcome!

I know what Base58 class you are talking about and that lesson is great! It's where I first learned about endianness :)

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