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Title: How do people have personalisated addresses ? Post by: Raviolarti on December 11, 2016, 04:54:45 PM So when browsing the forum, I saw that several members had personalisated addresses. On my wallet, I can't choose how an address will look, so I'm wondering how did people get them ? Could anyone indicate me where I can find a post explaining it ? That would be very kind of you :) !
Title: Re: How do people have personalisated addresses ? Post by: Omura on December 11, 2016, 04:59:10 PM Just google bitcoin vanity address.
There are programs like vanitygen which can generate the personalised addresses you want and online services you can use to generate the personalised address. Title: Re: How do people have personalisated addresses ? Post by: anorganix on December 11, 2016, 05:02:44 PM Personalized addresses are called vanity addresses.
The safe way to generate a vanity address is to use split-key vanity generation: 1. You use your own hardware with oclvanitygen tool and get a vanity address or 2. You generate a private/public keypair 2a. Send public key to a 3rd party (person or site) 2b. The 3rd party generates your address and partial private key 2c. You mix your private key with key obtained from step 2b 2d. You enjoy your new personalized address. Never use vanity addresses generated by 3rd parties that have the complete private key! Title: Re: How do people have personalisated addresses ? Post by: AdolfinWolf on December 11, 2016, 05:13:07 PM So when browsing the forum, I saw that several members had personalisated addresses. On my wallet, I can't choose how an address will look, so I'm wondering how did people get them ? Could anyone indicate me where I can find a post explaining it ? That would be very kind of you :) ! EDIT : -removed- the link, i've heard it is a scam. Sorry i didn't put enough effort into investigating the background of the site. I'm really sorry. Title: Re: How do people have personalisated addresses ? Post by: achow101 on December 11, 2016, 05:20:56 PM So when browsing the forum, I saw that several members had personalisated addresses. On my wallet, I can't choose how an address will look, so I'm wondering how did people get them ? Could anyone indicate me where I can find a post explaining it ? That would be very kind of you :) ! https://bitcoinvanitygen.com/ There you go. However this one is limited to 6 chars for free, then it is going to cost you money. Also be aware of your security while using these sites, since i have no clue how secure it is. Use at own risk! Title: Re: How do people have personalisated addresses ? Post by: Fortify on December 11, 2016, 05:22:31 PM Basically, these vanity address generators go through creating millions of random wallets to pick out particular combinations of keywords which may be desirable. However, you should avoid using any of the online ones if you want complete security, because they will save the keys which can access the funds that you store and can potentially steal them later on.
Title: Re: How do people have personalisated addresses ? Post by: anorganix on December 11, 2016, 05:23:05 PM So when browsing the forum, I saw that several members had personalisated addresses. On my wallet, I can't choose how an address will look, so I'm wondering how did people get them ? Could anyone indicate me where I can find a post explaining it ? That would be very kind of you :) ! https://bitcoinvanitygen.com/ There you go. However this one is limited to 6 chars for free, then it is going to cost you money. Also be aware of your security while using these sites, since i have no clue how secure it is. Use at own risk! It's not secure and most probably a scam since the site has the private key of your wallet. Title: Re: How do people have personalisated addresses ? Post by: stiffbud on December 11, 2016, 05:35:38 PM So when browsing the forum, I saw that several members had personalisated addresses. On my wallet, I can't choose how an address will look, so I'm wondering how did people get them ? Could anyone indicate me where I can find a post explaining it ? That would be very kind of you :) ! https://bitcoinvanitygen.com/ There you go. However this one is limited to 6 chars for free, then it is going to cost you money. Also be aware of your security while using these sites, since i have no clue how secure it is. Use at own risk! It's not secure and most probably a scam since the site has the private key of your wallet. If you want your own vanity address follow shorenas instruction in his thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1257817.0 He can help you generate your own personalized address with a small fee. Don't use that site you provided. Title: Re: How do people have personalisated addresses ? Post by: anorganix on December 11, 2016, 06:05:09 PM So when browsing the forum, I saw that several members had personalisated addresses. On my wallet, I can't choose how an address will look, so I'm wondering how did people get them ? Could anyone indicate me where I can find a post explaining it ? That would be very kind of you :) ! https://bitcoinvanitygen.com/ There you go. However this one is limited to 6 chars for free, then it is going to cost you money. Also be aware of your security while using these sites, since i have no clue how secure it is. Use at own risk! It's not secure and most probably a scam since the site has the private key of your wallet. If you want your own vanity address follow shorenas instruction in his thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1257817.0 He can help you generate your own personalized address with a small fee. Don't use that site you provided. I can generate one free address for him too, just that it has to be 6 chars long (max) to avoid downtime for too long for my mining rig. For example, 1RaviolXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, but I will need a public key. Title: Re: How do people have personalisated addresses ? Post by: BitcoinBarrel on December 12, 2016, 05:59:45 AM I use Vanity Gen to get my custom addresses like the 1Donate1 address in my profile.
https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen/downloads Title: Re: How do people have personalisated addresses ? Post by: Raviolarti on December 17, 2016, 02:34:05 PM I use Vanity Gen to get my custom addresses like the 1Donate1 address in my profile. https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen/downloads Thank you for giving me the link to that software. shorena's service seems very well, and people seem to trust the service, but since I have no bitcoin, I won't be able to request a a custom address since people have to pay for them, and thus, I'll have to generate one myself. I'll look further into the software to make it work and generate an address that is fully mine :) ! Title: Re: How do people have personalisated addresses ? Post by: pawel7777 on December 19, 2016, 12:49:43 PM Thank you for giving me the link to that software. shorena's service seems very well, and people seem to trust the service, but since I have no bitcoin, I won't be able to request a a custom address since people have to pay for them, and thus, I'll have to generate one myself. I'll look further into the software to make it work and generate an address that is fully mine :) ! You can use free LoyceV's service giveaway: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1424634.0 His thread is still active. Just make sure you read and follow the instructions in the first post properly. Title: Re: How do people have personalisated addresses ? Post by: Red Fish on December 19, 2016, 03:24:47 PM With vanity BTC address generator you can do this. The problem is that if you make your own BTC address through BTC vanity generator, your private keys are generated in vanity generator Web page. So your private keys are not 100% in your hands.
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