forwardsecrecy on Nostr: I don’t trust the vanities yet. There have been too many compromises with bad ...
I don’t trust the vanities yet. There have been too many compromises with bad crypto/entropy/randomness implementations resulting in lost digital funds for other vanity type addresses. I know there’s the “grain of sand” on the beach example, but the fact that I can generate so many so quickly still perturbs me a bit. Having said that, to each their own.
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2023-01-27 20:40:13Event JSON
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