Multibyte pubKeyHash

[iancoleman]

ZEC uses 0x1CB8 for the pubkeyhash

But the type is forced to be Uint8 so throws an error.

Is this something that can be worked around or will it require changes to bitcoinjs-lib?

[dcousens]

Only changes required would be in fromBase58Check and toBase58Check, but we'd be forcing those functions to be variable length in their encoding.

I think I can safely say this is something a fork would cover, but, the changes are tiny.

If we add support for #513 - then doing this could be as trivial as the pubKeyHash constant being a fixed length Buffer.