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Re:Border Wallets – a new way to quickly and reliably memori... by stblack on Friday July 22, 2022 @03:29PM (#32196131)
This falls into the general category of brain wallets.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet

I once generated a Bitcoin private key with a SHA-256 hash of a pop song lyric. Within 3-days the roughly $100 I sent to that wallet, as a test, was drained.

Entropy matters.

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Re:Border Wallets – a new way to quickly and reliably memori... by microchad on Friday July 29, 2022 @08:09AM (#32275906)
We explain the differences between Border Wallets and brain wallets here https://www.borderwallets.com/docs/faq
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