Kind of...

It needs to be base58, and it needs to have a checksum, so that the whole address is valid.

Here's some background: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/base58

The addresses starting with 1, and 3, are legacy, now modern addresses start with bc1.


nullama

So... How do these addresses work? You just need a 1 at the front & the rest you can just make up?

bitcoin

There are at least 3,034 bitcoins certainly lost forever as of 2022

Thanks for sharing

So... How do these addresses work? You just need a 1 at the front & the rest you can just make up?