Upgrade downloads are unnecessarily bloated with base64 encoding

[Bouowmx]

Encoding binary in base64 in base64 being 133% (8/6) size of binary. If relavent, this occurs in Windows.

grcrestarter2.log in Program Files, renamed to txt to allow upload to GitHub: grcrestarter2.txt

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2016-07-24 10:37:33, Downloading blob with length 9593 starting with <BLOB>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
2016-07-24 10:37:33, Converting base64 encoded byte array length 9580 starting with 4E/CocPjdcpV8mKdJ3ioKGFN8SZqxlIieQdNturp4sUA9bZOdZcxz7mJleQnqlWE6nMSpGQaHFdbT2LUJobikKu8j0QnyCGbUmVO
2016-07-24 10:37:33, Decrypted byte array length 7168
2016-07-24 10:37:33, Writing bytes to C:\Program Files (x86)\GridcoinResearch\\gpuenumerator.dll with length 7168
2016-07-24 10:37:33, Closing file.

Binary downloads should be done as is, no base64 conversion.

[gridcoin]

Looks like this .NET code converts binary to base64 and back for several reasons, none of which have to do with storage space.

The only files downloaded are Changed files, so the process is fairly efficient.