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You mean like A1B2C3D4-E5F6-G7H8-I9J0-BEEF5773CATS? Sorry, I'm honestly not sure what that could be. Are the letters the full alphabet or a subset? Hexadecimal is 0-9 and a-f. Base64 is a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and /+. Base58 is like Base64, but omits /+0OIl. Also, usually there are no dashes in any of this.
> I’d love to understand the psychology behind breaking 100k, Sapir Whorf. Humans think in terms of their symbols, so its nearly impossible for a human to not assign special value to round numbers. Without symbolic thought, a human can understand nothing beyond the concept of 4 or 5 at most using only their immediate wordless mind. With language and symbolic thought, we can understand almost any quantity, but the symbology we choose to represent it will influence us heavily. For example, the numbers 1048576 and 48879 probably dont seem significant or special to you, but if we used base 16 numbers then those values would be "100000" and "BEEF" respectively. Its nearly impossible for a human not to react to that and feel some significance from it. So even though the real value of the dollar has tanked > 40% in the last 4 years, we still assign mental value to relatively meaningless points like each round 10,000 USD val. It may seem irrational, but money is a mainly psychological technology anyway.