ncmebasolcj2pmw5oy2bco4r65jbcqznrujtxcalz6e2b2jmhjlf44ad.onionWhat the string reports
Computed fields
- Full address
- ncmebasolcj2pmw5oy2bco4r65jbcqznrujtxcalz6e2b2jmhjlf44ad.onion
- Characters before .onion
- 56
- Characters including suffix
- 62
- Alphabet check
- pass · no 0, 1, 8 or 9
- Letters
- 45
- Digits
- 11 · 19.6% of the string
- Distinct symbols used
- 26 of 32
- Symbols never used
- g i k v 3 7
- Most frequent symbol
- c · 5 times
- Longest run of one character
- 2 · 4
- Opens with the market name
- no
- Longest prefix shared with another address here
- 0 · none
The openings people think they can remember
Two of the twelve strings open with eight letters and no digit. This is the one where the result reads most like a syllable you could say aloud. Read it once and something in the back of your head files it as a word, and the moment a string is filed as a word it stops being treated as data.
Anything filed as a word gets recalled the way words are recalled, which is approximately. People remember that it started with an n and had an m and a b in it somewhere. They do not remember the order. Ask them to write it down a day later and they will produce something with the right flavour and the wrong characters, and they will be confident about it, because confidence in word recall is not proportional to accuracy.
Digits break the spell. A string with a digit in the first few characters is obviously not a word, so it gets stored as an opaque token or not stored at all, and not stored at all is the safest outcome available. The reader goes back to the source instead of trusting their memory. That is why the digit-free openings in this set deserve more caution than the digit-heavy ones, which is the reverse of how people usually rank them.
None of that says anything about the address itself. It has thirteen fewer digits than the heaviest string here and eleven in total, it uses 26 distinct symbols, and it was produced exactly the same way as its eleven siblings. The only difference worth naming is the one this page is about. It is the string most likely to be reproduced from memory, and reproducing any of these from memory is the mistake the whole site exists to argue against.
The three zones of this string
No digits in the head, three in the middle and two in the final eight. Six of the 32 symbols are absent from the string entirely.
| Zone | Characters | Value | Digits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head | 1 to 8 | ncmebaso | 0 |
| Middle | 21 to 40 | co4r65jbcqznrujtxcal | 3 |
| Tail | 49 to 56 | hjlf44ad | 2 |
Questions
Is a word-like opening a sign of a vanity address?
Not by itself. A genuine vanity address spells something deliberately, usually the market name. An accidental syllable is just a run of letters that happens to be pronounceable.
What should I do instead of remembering the opening?
Copy the whole string, every time, from wherever you keep it. An address you can recall is an address you can recall wrongly, and there is no partial credit.