# Bech32 Rust [![Docs.rs badge](https://docs.rs/bech32/badge.svg)](https://docs.rs/bech32/) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/rust-bitcoin/rust-bech32.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/rust-bitcoin/rust-bech32) Rust implementation of the Bech32 encoding format described in [BIP-0173](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawiki). You can find some usage examples in the [documentation](https://docs.rs/bech32/). Bitcoin-specific address encoding is handled by the `bitcoin-bech32` crate.