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CH04: Drop section about hex to base58check

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This is extraneous information.  Any programmer who understands how to
create a base58check address can convert to it, or from it, using any
byte encoding supported by their programming language or one of its
libraries.
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===== Encode from hex to Base58Check
To encode into Base58Check (the opposite of the previous command), we
use the +base58check-encode+ command from Bitcoin Explorer (see
<<appdx_bx>>) and provide the hex private key, followed by the WIF
version prefix 128:
----
bx base58check-encode 1e99423a4ed27608a15a2616a2b0e9e52ced330ac530edcc32c8ffc6a526aedd --version 128
5J3mBbAH58CpQ3Y5RNJpUKPE62SQ5tfcvU2JpbnkeyhfsYB1Jcn
----
===== Encode from hex (compressed key) to Base58Check
To encode into Base58Check as a "compressed" private key (see
<<comp_priv>>), we append the suffix +01+ to the hex key and then encode
as in the preceding section:
----
$ bx base58check-encode 1e99423a4ed27608a15a2616a2b0e9e52ced330ac530edcc32c8ffc6a526aedd01 --version 128
KxFC1jmwwCoACiCAWZ3eXa96mBM6tb3TYzGmf6YwgdGWZgawvrtJ
----
The resulting WIF-compressed format starts with a "K." This denotes that
the private key within has a suffix of "01" and will be used to produce
compressed public keys only (see <<comp_pub>>).
===== Public key formats