/**
 * base58btc encoding (Bitcoin alphabet) — a pure, chain-agnostic codec.
 *
 * This is NOT a Solana primitive: base58btc is the shared encoding used by
 * Bitcoin, IPFS (CIDv0), Solana addresses, and others. It lives in
 * `@motebit/protocol` as a sibling to the money converters (`toMicro` /
 * `fromMicro`) — pure deterministic byte math, no I/O, no chain awareness.
 *
 * The motebit use today: a Solana address is `base58Encode(ed25519_pubkey)` —
 * the sovereign rail's "identity key = address" property. That chain-specific
 * knowledge ("Solana address = base58 of the 32-byte pubkey") stays at the call
 * site; this module only knows bytes → base58 string.
 */
/**
 * Encode bytes as a base58btc string. Leading zero bytes map to leading `1`s
 * (base58btc convention), so the encoding is length-preserving for zero
 * prefixes — the property addresses and CIDs depend on.
 */
export declare function base58Encode(bytes: Uint8Array): string;
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