The location of a tx in the blockchain can be encoded in n=log2(h)+log2(t) bits, where h is the block height, and t is the number of transactions in the block. Currently h~250,000 and t~500, so n~27. A CVC phoneme encodes ~10.7 bits *, so a transaction today can be located in the blockchain with 3 of these, e.g. reb-mizvig. This is reasonably short, readable and memorable. The identity protocol Jeff Garzik is working on will link a public key fingerprint to a miner sacrifice transaction. This tx could in turn be uniquely described with a short name as above. Associating this name with the public key becomes secure once the tx is sufficiently buried in the blockchain. In the identity protocol, lightweight clients check the validity of a sacrifice tx by checking that its merkle path is valid. But this path encodes, via the ordering of the hashes at each level, the location of the transaction in the block, so the lightweight client can verify the sacrifice tx's short name using only the information he already has. Some more random names: vec-halhic wom-vizpyd guv-zussof jog-copwug seg-rizges jyg-somgod pax-synjem zyg-zuxdyj gid-mutdyj rel-hyrdaj Sources of inspiration: urbit.org https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Identity_protocol_v1 * This is somewhat restricted: I disallowed q for obvious reasons and k because it conflicts with c, and c looks much softer and less like Klingon. H is allowed for the first consonant, but not the second, and x is allowed for the last one, but not the first one. Y is a vowel, but not a consonant. Maybe these weren't quite the right choices. Paint away!