diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index efbeec1..2be29c0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -54,6 +54,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "generic-array",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "bs58"
+version = "0.5.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bf88ba1141d185c399bee5288d850d63b8369520c1eafc32a0430b5b6c287bf4"
+dependencies = [
+ "tinyvec",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bytes"
 version = "1.7.2"
@@ -580,6 +589,7 @@ name = "upldis"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "blake3",
+ "bs58",
  "fastly",
  "humanize-bytes",
  "humantime",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index dffd15f..1ca0840 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,4 +15,6 @@ tinytemplate = "1.2"
 serde_json = "1.0"
 humanize-bytes = "1.0"
 humantime = "2.1"
+bs58 = "0.5"
 blake3 = "1.5"
+
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index aa73e97..ab6d265 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ fn handle_put(mut req: Request) -> Result<Response, Error> {
     let filename = url.path_segments().unwrap().last();
 
     // Hash content and use it for the id
-    let hash = blake3::hash(&body).to_hex();
+    let hash = bs58::encode(blake3::hash(&body).as_bytes()).into_string();
     let id = &hash[..ID_LENGTH];
 
     let kv = fastly::kv_store::KVStore::open(KV_STORE)?.expect("kv store to exist");