diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# SimplePack-dotnet 🧳
+
+
+This is a dotnet binary encoding library intended to encode bytes messages suitable for transmission over text-only channels, e.g. certain document formats, instant messages, and web pages.
+
+* Custom human meaningful header/footer
+* Built in checksum for error detection (not cryptographic)
+* No new lines or odd characters (uses base58). This means less mangling by external services.
+
+## Install
+
+Available on nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/SimplePack-base58/
+
+
+## Usage
+
+```
+SimplePack packer = new SimplePack("MyHeader ", " MyFooter");
+
+# encode
+packer.encode(arbitraryBytes);
+# decode
+packer.decode("MyHeader <encode result data> MyFooter");
+
+```
+
diff --git a/SimplePack/SimplePack.cs b/SimplePack/SimplePack.cs
index 8a4f937..29715e8 100644
--- a/SimplePack/SimplePack.cs
+++ b/SimplePack/SimplePack.cs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ namespace simplepack
     {
         private string head;
         private string foot;
+
         public SimplePack(string header, string footer){
             // Specify human meaningful header/footer string
             head = header;
diff --git a/SimplePack/SimplePack.csproj b/SimplePack/SimplePack.csproj
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--- a/SimplePack/SimplePack.csproj
+++ b/SimplePack/SimplePack.csproj
@@ -2,10 +2,22 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
+    <Authors>Kevin Froman</Authors>
+    <Company></Company>
+    <Title>SimplePack</Title>
+    <Copyright>2020</Copyright>
+    <PackageId>SimplePack-base58</PackageId>
+    <PackageLicenseExpression>GPL-3.0-or-later</PackageLicenseExpression>
+    <description>Simple binary encoding format with built in checksum designed to avoid mangling.</description>
+
+
   </PropertyGroup>
 
-  <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageReference Include="Base58Check" Version="0.2.0" />
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <PackageReference Include="Base58Check" Version="0.2.0" />
+    <None Include="../LICENSE.txt" Pack="true" PackagePath="LICENSE.txt"/>
   </ItemGroup>
 
+
+
 </Project>