How to put words into a Bitcoin address? Here’s how vanity addresses work By Cointelegraph

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Have you ever wondered whether a (BTC) address — or a string of 26–35 alphanumeric characters — can happen to have human-readable words instead of random letters?

You’ve probably heard of the Lightning Network, which allows you to create a fancy BTC address that looks like an email or a web domain. But there’s also a way of creating Bitcoin addresses containing human-readable words on the original Bitcoin blockchain. Such addresses are known as vanity Bitcoin addresses.