conformal/btcutil — pull request #17 by benma (2014-12-17 14:10:22+00:00)
Title: Split off base58 into a new library

Hi

In our work in Monetas, we needed base58(Check) encoding and decoding functionality in Go. Some of my colleagues collaborate on conformals bitcoin implementation and told me I could find it here.
Since we need only the base58 functions, but not the rest of the bitcoin related stuff in btcutil, we figured it would be a good idea to split off the base58 code into a new library.

For the moment, it can be found [here](https://github.com/monetas/base58), but we would very much like you to take it and move it to conformal/base58, since it is your code and still belongs here.
The initial [base58 commit](https://github.com/monetas/base58/commits/master) is a 1:1 copy of the base58 files and the LICENSE, and the second commit encapsulates base58Check encoding.

This PR contains a patch to btcutil to remove the duplicated bas58 code and use that library instead.

Once you have moved monetas/base58 to btcutil/base58, I can update the patch with the new import paths.

Thank you very much.