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To use it for testing and playing around with, sure. But it should never be advertised as a way to generate your keys. Brain wallets aren't safe. And we humans are bad at randomly picking anything. Such a wallet would be less safe than one created from random sources of entropy. It could lead to loss of funds if you were to deposit bitcoin into a wallet created that way that would then get brute forced by someone.

I have also edited my post above to say this.
I am sceptical now, whether I should implement it or not.
Perhaps I shouldn't, because I know that seoincorporation is aware he shouldn't use it, but I can't be sure for other people too.

I know the risk behind brain wallets, even they had their own speech at Defcon 23, i will leave the video for those who don't understand how risky is to use them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foil0hzl4Pg

But it is still a way to generate addresses, and it has some uses like giveaways, and they could be "secure" if we use a large random string like some sha256 or sha512 strings mixed with other patterns.

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[apogio]

I know the risk behind brain wallets, even they had their own speech at Defcon 23, i will leave the video for those who don't understand how risky is to use them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foil0hzl4Pg

But it is still a way to generate addresses, and it has some uses like giveaways, and they could be "secure" if we use a large random string like some sha256 or sha512 strings mixed with other patterns.

Here is the brainwallet generator in BASH: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5488789.msg63802072#msg63802072
I will make sure to include it to OP as well.

[apogio]

Hi everyone!

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