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base58

Base58 and Base58Check implementation compatible with what is used by the bitcoin network.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

base58 has 4.2M monthly downloads and 189 GitHub stars. Version 2.1.1 supports Python 3.5+, first published in 2013.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2021.

It is used by 555 tracked packages, including multiaddr, substrate-interface and py-multihash.

GitHub topics include base58, bitcoin and encoding.

Downloads
Day
168.6K
Week
1.0M
Month
4.2M
Stars
189
Forks
63
Issues
1
Version
2.1.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
49
Adoption
80
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1303 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,177,519
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
• At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
4,177,519
Stars
189
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
• Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
146,997
Month daily avg
139,251
Momentum
+5.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.5
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
1710 days ago
Total releases
16
Releases/year
1.2
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
• Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
15
Monthly downloads
4,177,519
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
52
 
Issue Burden
5.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
23.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
406d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 80.0K
Windows 19.0K
macOS 13.3K

Python Versions

3.11
55.4% 58.4K
3.12
25.4% 26.8K
3.13
8.3% 8.7K
3.10
6.9% 7.2K
3.14
4.0% 4.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
62.7K
2. CN CN
5.7K
3. DE DE
4.3K
4. SG SG
3.7K
5. IE IE
3.2K
6. JP JP
3.1K
7. HK HK
2.7K
8. CA CA
2.4K
9. GB GB
1.7K
10. RU RU
1.6K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
May 9, 2013
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
3 years ago
Latest Version
2.1.1
Total Releases
16
Contributors
15
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
David Keijser
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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