From d49ca406ffe959834f466aea4ea2f404589bc5ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Cousens <github@dcousens.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 18:04:24 +1000
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] bs58: avoid assert dependency

---
 lib/bs58.js | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/bs58.js b/lib/bs58.js
index 7501ed5..743de0e 100644
--- a/lib/bs58.js
+++ b/lib/bs58.js
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 // Merged Buffer refactorings from base58-native by Stephen Pair
 // Copyright (c) 2013 BitPay Inc
 
-var assert = require('assert')
-
 var ALPHABET = '123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz'
 var ALPHABET_MAP = {}
 for(var i = 0; i < ALPHABET.length; i++) {
@@ -50,7 +48,7 @@ function decode(string) {
   var i, j, bytes = [0]
   for (i = 0; i < string.length; i++) {
     var c = string[i]
-    assert(c in ALPHABET_MAP, 'Non-base58 character')
+    if (!(c in ALPHABET_MAP)) throw new Error('Non-base58 character')
 
     for (j = 0; j < bytes.length; j++) bytes[j] *= BASE
     bytes[0] += ALPHABET_MAP[c]

From 4fa6987e86e1e41961def78c43f177eb1c027053 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Cousens <github@dcousens.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 18:12:45 +1000
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] bs58: remove Buffer dependency

---
 lib/bs58.js  | 4 ++--
 test/bs58.js | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/bs58.js b/lib/bs58.js
index 743de0e..b523a25 100644
--- a/lib/bs58.js
+++ b/lib/bs58.js
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ function encode(buffer) {
 }
 
 function decode(string) {
-  if (string.length === 0) return new Buffer(0)
+  if (string.length === 0) return []
 
   var i, j, bytes = [0]
   for (i = 0; i < string.length; i++) {
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ function decode(string) {
   // deal with leading zeros
   for (i = 0; string[i] === '1' && i < string.length - 1; i++) bytes.push(0)
 
-  return new Buffer(bytes.reverse())
+  return bytes.reverse()
 }
 
 module.exports = {
diff --git a/test/bs58.js b/test/bs58.js
index 9b55a7e..0db5578 100644
--- a/test/bs58.js
+++ b/test/bs58.js
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ describe('base58', function() {
   describe('decode', function() {
     fixtures.valid.forEach(function(f) {
       it('can decode ' + f.string, function() {
-        var actual = base58.decode(f.string).toString('hex')
+        var actual = new Buffer(base58.decode(f.string)).toString('hex')
 
         assert.strictEqual(actual, f.hex)
       })

From 6966e4f11ac1cdfc03646c1efdda256bf8613000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Cousens <github@dcousens.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 18:23:52 +1000
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] package: update dev-dependencies

---
 package.json | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 143e292..9a6150b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@
     "litecoin"
   ],
   "devDependencies": {
-    "coveralls": "^2.10.0",
+    "coveralls": "^2.11.2",
     "istanbul": "^0.2.10",
     "jshint": "2.5.1",
-    "mocha": "^1.19.0",
+    "mocha": "^1.21.4",
     "mocha-lcov-reporter": "0.0.1",
     "mochify": "~0.4.2"
   },