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by AlyssaRowan 573 days ago
I mean, that brute-forceability was a reason for the newer v3 addresses; the v2 ones just weren't long enough.

(As told to me by Alec, they bruteforced the first bit, but found a very coincidentally attractive one for a backronym among the candidates and chose that.)

They did the first 8 characters of the v3.