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3. can someone explain these "vanity addresses"

Wed Jun 18, 2025, 03:33 PM

Jun 2025

thing to me?

so…if there is a way to store crypto that can’t be gotten into, why doesn’t everyone store their crypto that way?

i understand that the way the article reads that NO ONE has the “key” to get into the “vanity address”…but if someone did have the key they could get it…right?

so why wouldn’t someone store their crypto in a “vanity address” that only THEY had the “key” to?

there’s so much about this crypto-crap i just don’t feel i’m grasping. it seems as if i am becoming my aged parents and a younger me is trying to explain how GMAIL works.

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