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How so?


It’s intended to be human readable, but it’s not and its slow adoption is proof of that. A random 10 digit string would arguably be better.


You mean base64? 10 digits is only 10 billion addresses


I was thinking of ipv5.


> It’s intended to be human readable…

What? No.

Facebook did some brute forcing to slip `facebook` into their Onion URLs, but no one's intended to be typing these things out.


> It’s intended to be human readable

Says who?

> slow adoption is proof of that

No it's not. There are many plausible reasons for the slow pace of IPv6 adoption. Poor human-readability of addresses is among the least plausible.




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