ICRC-1 Account Human Readable Format

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Proposal of using Bech32 format address , an alternative and sounded way to display Account-ID

Abstract This Proposal details the bech32 address standard adopted by the IC. Motivation Account-ID is widely used in IC, in dfx ledger and NNS wallet. The Account-ID uses 64 length hexidecimal string as identifier, calculated by DER-Publickey ,SHA256, and with crc32 checksum. Users use it to transfer ICPs/Tokens from one to another. Major exchanges and IC’s wallets/ledger use it. However, this format of Account-ID is widely used in various projects, eg NEAR protocol. Although IC uses princ…