And for the OCD among us, or at least those who have the great idea that I will get organized *soon* it allows us to categorize some things.
i.e. bc1qCarStuff...... or bc1qH0tSauce.... or bc1qC0llect and so on.
So this way looking back later I would be able to figure out what was what without searching though a bunch of random addresses.
Have not really been doing it, but there was that plan....
Why not use
labels in your wallet for this? By using vanity addresses as labels, you're basically making your labels public. It's bad for privacy.
When I am posting an address here for payment, or on another forum the loss of privacy by having it public is just about 0 if someone is looking.
Having a QR code on the table at the car show swap meet probably is worse.
For example, let's say that your regular address is 1LoyceVg9r*******
You made me curious how many of the
1,219,157,164 used Bitcoin addresses contain "LoyceV" (case insensitive):
1Dd7BCtAQLEsKAn8LoYceVnChJugppMXbM
3DzkCVBN3VLoYCEVbhKxAsc7B2qg9pNW3h
1Ex3dKEQ62P1LoYcEVPs8ra5uWcMvj8XPC
179V56LoYCevph6CUwUNvP4huhYu9TiiVy
3LoYCEVV9PLS99113RXpayzpXJKdFiDTq9
1HBXxakN6qFL9CKVnrHLoyCeVguetikHsa
1LoyceVSbrv3CP3jT12qVYrNSbrqz4FL5q
3KtVhoLoYCEvvK4NjnfnAdvJk6NmPXau77
1J2VyNLLn2BLoyCevFPkUgcnJcGXwqWmWM
36X9KA5NueLSsPVjq3nLoyCEVbNdWcfMEc
1H28sq4JkXDp2UD3ULoyCeVJa4rnKcVrp2
3MPh3rUeD8xkZLcvwm7YtMKTdY5LoyCEvj
3LoyceVUWE9iUFKJT6ncGHgBGGXCwkGBeB
1DegqmsN9BXTyU7RMWysZX9ZqLoYcEVNtg
3K5K4gm4QmrBeBgTxqmYJLoYCEvsiPPis5
The list is a lot longer with "DaveF" (1699 entries)
That's 5 characters for DaveF vs 6 for LoyceV so even eliminating the ones we posted those numbers are probably going to be similar for other character sets.
As I said, I never actually did as much with it as I wanted to, but there was a plan.
All in all, I still see Vanity addresses popping up and people using them, but it seems to have always been a more people who REALLY like
BTC vs people who use
BTC thing.
-Dave