diff --git a/packages/networking/hyprspace/cli/init.go b/packages/networking/hyprspace/cli/init.go
index 31c244d..47abbdb 100644
--- a/packages/networking/hyprspace/cli/init.go
+++ b/packages/networking/hyprspace/cli/init.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/hyprspace/hyprspace/config"
 	"github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p"
 	"github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-core/crypto"
+	"github.com/multiformats/go-multibase"
 	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
 )
 
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ func InitRun(r *cmd.Root, c *cmd.Sub) {
 			ListenPort: 8001,
 			Address:    "10.1.1.1/24",
 			ID:         host.ID().Pretty(),
-			PrivateKey: string(keyBytes),
+			PrivateKey: multibase.MustNewEncoder(multibase.Base58BTC).Encode(keyBytes),
 		},
 	}
 
diff --git a/packages/networking/hyprspace/cli/up.go b/packages/networking/hyprspace/cli/up.go
index cb23822..dd671d1 100644
--- a/packages/networking/hyprspace/cli/up.go
+++ b/packages/networking/hyprspace/cli/up.go
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-core/host"
 	"github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-core/network"
 	"github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-core/peer"
+	"github.com/multiformats/go-multibase"
 	"github.com/nxadm/tail"
 )
 
@@ -132,10 +133,11 @@ func UpRun(r *cmd.Root, c *cmd.Sub) {
 	port, err := verifyPort(cfg.Interface.ListenPort)
 	checkErr(err)
 
+	_, privateKey, err := multibase.Decode(cfg.Interface.PrivateKey)
 	// Create P2P Node
 	host, dht, err := p2p.CreateNode(
 		ctx,
-		cfg.Interface.PrivateKey,
+		privateKey,
 		port,
 		streamHandler,
 	)
diff --git a/packages/networking/hyprspace/go.mod b/packages/networking/hyprspace/go.mod
index 1092553..95e6aac 100644
--- a/packages/networking/hyprspace/go.mod
+++ b/packages/networking/hyprspace/go.mod
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht v0.15.0
 	github.com/libp2p/go-tcp-transport v0.4.0
 	github.com/multiformats/go-multiaddr v0.4.1
+	github.com/multiformats/go-multibase v0.0.3
 	github.com/nxadm/tail v1.4.8
 	github.com/songgao/water v0.0.0-20200317203138-2b4b6d7c09d8
 	github.com/tcnksm/go-latest v0.0.0-20170313132115-e3007ae9052e
diff --git a/packages/networking/hyprspace/p2p/node.go b/packages/networking/hyprspace/p2p/node.go
index 8c2da2b..f5b89e4 100644
--- a/packages/networking/hyprspace/p2p/node.go
+++ b/packages/networking/hyprspace/p2p/node.go
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ func getExtraBootstrapNodes(addr ma.Multiaddr) (nodesList []string) {
 }
 
 // CreateNode creates an internal Libp2p nodes and returns it and it's DHT Discovery service.
-func CreateNode(ctx context.Context, inputKey string, port int, handler network.StreamHandler) (node host.Host, dhtOut *dht.IpfsDHT, err error) {
+func CreateNode(ctx context.Context, inputKey []byte, port int, handler network.StreamHandler) (node host.Host, dhtOut *dht.IpfsDHT, err error) {
 	// Unmarshal Private Key
-	privateKey, err := crypto.UnmarshalPrivateKey([]byte(inputKey))
+	privateKey, err := crypto.UnmarshalPrivateKey(inputKey)
 	if err != nil {
 		return
 	}