def generate_address(self):
        """
        Creates a Bitcoin address from the public key.
        
        Details of the steps for creating the address are outlined in this link:
        https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_version_1_Bitcoin_addresses
        
        The last step is Base58Check encoding, which is similar to Base64 encoding but
        slightly different to create a more human-readable string where '1' and 'l' won't
        get confused. More on Base64Check encoding here:
        https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding
        """
        binary_pubkey = binascii.unhexlify(self.public_key)
        binary_digest_sha256 = hashlib.sha256(binary_pubkey).digest()
        binary_digest_ripemd160 = hashlib.new('ripemd160', binary_digest_sha256).digest()

        binary_version_byte = bytes([0])
        binary_with_version_key = binary_version_byte + binary_digest_ripemd160

        checksum_intermed = hashlib.sha256(binary_with_version_key).digest()
        checksum_intermed = hashlib.sha256(checksum_intermed).digest()
        checksum = checksum_intermed[:4]

        binary_address = binary_digest_ripemd160 + checksum

        leading_zero_bytes = 0
        
        for char in binary_address:
            if char == 0:
                leading_zero_bytes += 1

        inp = binary_address + checksum
        result = 0

        while len(inp) > 0:
            result *= 256
            result += inp[0]
            inp = inp[1:]
        
        result_bytes = bytes()
        while result > 0:
            curcode = '123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz'[result % 58]
            result_bytes = bytes([ord(curcode)]) + result_bytes
            result //= 58

        pad_size = 0 - len(result_bytes)
        padding_element = b'1'

        if pad_size > 0:
            result_bytes = padding_element * pad_size + result_bytes
        result = ''.join([chr(y) for y in result_bytes])
        address = '1' * leading_zero_bytes + result
        return address
Creates a Bitcoin address from the public key.
        
        Details of the steps for creating the address are outlined in this link:
        https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_version_1_Bitcoin_addresses
        
        The last step is Base58Check encoding, which is similar to Base64 encoding but
        slightly different to create a more human-readable string where '1' and 'l' won't
        get confused. More on Base64Check encoding here:
        https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding