March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
20h 9m
English
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Vanity addresses
As bitcoin addresses are based on base-58 encoding, it is possible to generate addresses that contain human-readable messages. An example is shown as follows:
Vanity public address encoded in QR
Vanity addresses are generated using a purely brute-force method. An example of a paper wallet with vanity address is shown in the following screenshot:
Vanity address generated from https://bitcoinvanitygen.com/
In the preceding screenshot, on the right-hand bottom corner the public vanity address with QR code is displayed. The paper ...