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by Buge 2990 days ago
>No, the tool works like a brainwallet.

Are you saying that is a good thing? It's well known that brainwallet is a footgun.

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

>An early old-style brainwallet was created by by memorization of a passphrase and converting it a private key with a hashing or key derivation algorithm (example: SHA256). That private key is then used to compute a Bitcoin address. This method was found to be very insecure and should not be used. Humans are not a good source of entropy.