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Recently I have been doing some reading on blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. One issue which seems to be a potential complication of cryptocurrency wallets is that of public addresses - those which you use to receive funds from another party. Wallet addresses typically have dozens of characters and appear to be a random string of numbers and letters - certainly not something which is particularly memorable. The danger is that if someone sends funds to the wrong address, the transaction is irreversible on the blockchain. Funds can be lost by using the wrong address. So it would be valuable to have a memorable address. Perhaps within a wallet's software, more memorable addresses could be offered. However, it would become first come first served. Would there be a way to link memorable domain names (in any TLD including nTLDs) to wallet addresses? How much would cryptocurrency users be willing to pay for a memorable address to store their funds? Perhaps only $XX to maybe low $XXX but there might be some low-end application to domain names. Thoughts?