user50062: How does one create a brain wallet from a seed using SHA256? Is this possible?
Could you please explain using the example seed "coinbase is awesome" (no apostrophes)? What is the resulting address?

user26873: A brain wallet is simply the SHA256 hash of an arbitrary string, this is a Bitcoin private key in hexadecimal format. The 64 character hex string is then encoded to a Base58 Private Key, more commonly known as WIF(Wallet Import Format). Basically you can create a key from any data, even an mp3.   
Bitaddress.org has been around since 2011, and let's you create brain wallets.

user50062: A bitcoin generator can generate an address. 
i.e. https://brainwalletx.github.io/


50062: <p>How does one create a brain wallet from a seed using SHA256? Is this possible?</p>

<p>Could you please explain using the example seed "coinbase is awesome" (no apostrophes)? What is the resulting address?</p>
 26873: <p>A brain wallet is simply the SHA256 hash of an arbitrary string, this is a Bitcoin private key in hexadecimal format. The 64 character hex string is then encoded to a Base58 Private Key, more commonly known as WIF(Wallet Import Format). Basically you can create a key from any data, even an mp3.   </p>

<p><a href="http://bitaddress.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bitaddress.org</a> has been around since 2011, and let's you create brain wallets.</p>
 50062: <p>A bitcoin generator can generate an address. </p>

<p>i.e. <a href="https://brainwalletx.github.io/" rel="noreferrer">https://brainwalletx.github.io/</a> 
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/L3KcD.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/L3KcD.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
