Whilst wading through an old thread of morbidly fascinating stupidity-train wreckage about “brainwallets”, I discovered that tinhyeumaunang uid #937704 (then Brand New; now Member) had the utter gall to copypaste a forum moderator’s post in its entirety—
2 minutes, 14 seconds after registering that account:It is highly NOT RECOMMENDED to use brainwallets. Humans are a horrendously low source of entropy. There are multiple research papers and programs that show that brainwallets are horribly insecure and easily cracked as what you think is a strong password probably is not a strong password.
BIP 38 paper wallets will not be particularly helpful here. It only protects against someone stealing your paper wallet and trying to get the keys. BIP 38 does not protect against someone just guessing the password you used to create your brainwallet.
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It is highly NOT RECOMMENDED to use brainwallets. Humans are a horrendously low source of entropy.
There are multiple research papers and programs that show that brainwallets are horribly insecure and easily cracked as what you think is a strong password probably is not a strong password.
BIP 38 paper wallets will not be particularly helpful here.
It only protects against someone stealing your paper wallet and trying to get the keys. BIP 38 does not protect against someone just guessing the password you used to create your brainwallet.
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Date Registered: January 03, 2017, 10:42:50 AMLast Active: September 17, 2017, 04:56:08 PM
I hope that I have here caused the nuking of an bad account which would have value on the account-sale market.
Are you looking to become a moderator yourself in the future?
That’s bait; but I’ll bite, because I think you misunderstand the glory of being a moderator.
My reporting stats currently say this: “You have reported 139 posts with 100% accuracy”. That is since I started actively engaging the forum on 1 December 2017 (though I did about 70 of those in one hours-long binge). So yes, sometimes I get in the mood to help out and clean up some of the trash around here.
But I would be not be jumping for joy at the prospect of
making a commitment to take responsibility day in, day out for a task tantamount to emptying a landfill with a spoon—as the garbage trucks keep rolling in. A rotten, thankless task, which elicits replies such as yours hereinabove: “
Why don't you stop and think for a moment... What the fuck... ...lest we get caught by some nut [C’est moi!]...” I see mods get that guff all the time. Not that I think they give a damn about such opinions, and neither do I; but also, I so rarely see them receive a simple “thank you” for efforts without which the forum would be totally useless.
Now, this discussion has gone way off-topic in a quite useful thread; thus unless something pertinent or at least interesting be said by you in reply, I will not reply to you further.
P.S.:
Thanks, mods.