Preparing for v2

Author: stephen-hill

readme.md

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 
 Each major version of this library will be supported for 5 years after it's initial release. Support will be provided for security and bug fixes.
 
-Version 1 will therefore be supported until the 11th September 2019.
+- Version 2 will be supported until the 1st Janurary 2031.
+- Version 1 support expired on the 11th September 2019.
 
 ## Background
 
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ So I decided to create a library with the following goals:
 
 This library has the following requirements:
 
-- PHP => 5.3
+- PHP => 8.1
 - BC Math Extension
 
 ## Installation
@@ -87,46 +88,6 @@ This library is tested using PHPUnit.
 $ bin/phpunit
 ```
 
-## Benchmarking
-
-You can benchmark this library using [Athletic](https://github.com/polyfractal/athletic).
-The benchmarking suite also benchmarks PHP's built-in Base64 and Base16 encoding for comparison.
-
-```bash
-$ bin/athletic -p benchmarks
-```
-
-Example output.
-
-```
-StephenHill\Benchmarks\Base16Event
-    Method Name    Iterations    Average Time      Ops/second
-    ------------  ------------  --------------    -------------
-    encodeBase16: [10,000    ] [0.0000010839939] [922,514.40637]
-    decodeBase16: [10,000    ] [0.0000011516809] [868,296.03561]
-
-
-StephenHill\Benchmarks\Base58BCMathEvent
-    Method Name    Iterations    Average Time      Ops/second
-    ------------  ------------  --------------    -------------
-    encodeBase58: [10,000    ] [0.0001500048161] [6,666.45263]
-    decodeBase58: [10,000    ] [0.0001741812706] [5,741.14540]
-
-
-StephenHill\Benchmarks\Base58GMPEvent
-    Method Name    Iterations    Average Time      Ops/second
-    ------------  ------------  --------------    -------------
-    encodeBase58: [10,000    ] [0.0001168665648] [8,556.76730]
-    decodeBase58: [10,000    ] [0.0001385705233] [7,216.54199]
-
-
-StephenHill\Benchmarks\Base64Event
-    Method Name    Iterations    Average Time      Ops/second
-    ------------  ------------  --------------    -------------
-    encodeBase64: [10,000    ] [0.0000009050369] [1,104,927.29189]
-    decodeBase64: [10,000    ] [0.0000009787321] [1,021,730.04312]
-```
-
 ## Contributing
 
 I welcome everyone to contribute to this library. Please see the Contributing document for details.