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Title: Bitcoinvanitygen.com Post by: MadGamer on December 21, 2016, 12:33:22 PM I saw the website once a while ago while searching on google but I'm starting to see in some signatures in the forums now , on the official website (http://bitcoinvanitygen.com/) they are claiming that they generated more then 24,000 address for users , I want to know If someone experienced any theft from their vanity addresses after using this service or not because using an online service to generate a vanity address for you requires a lot of trust .
Title: Re: Bitcoinvanitygen.com Post by: n3rvi0zz0 on December 21, 2016, 12:38:48 PM Hi this was explained thousands of times on the forum, and for a hero member like you sounds even more extrange.
Bitcoinvanity.com its the website of the creator of vanitygen here is the link to the post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0) Vanitygen has the option to split key whn youre generating a private key Quote I have a lot of compute power, and want to make vanity addresses for others. How do I do it? The difficulty with this is convincing your customer that, once you provide them with a vanity address, you do not have a copy of their private key. Some methods of doing this have been discussed on the forum, and vanitygen currently supports one of them. To generate an address securely, your customer generates a private key, and provides you with the public key part. You use this public key as part of the address search, and when you find a match, you provide them with a partial private key. The customer then adds the partial private key to their private key to get the vanity address. Because the customer never disclosed their part of the private key, only they have access to the complete private key. There are many ways to get a key pair, but to do address-for-hire, you need the complete public key in hexadecimal format. The bitcoin address is not sufficient. One way to generate one and get this is to use the keyconv utility, keyconv -G, and get the following parts: look arround, they are not storing private keys. its a paid service. they earn a little revenue with the big address Title: Re: Bitcoinvanitygen.com Post by: 400actforsale on December 21, 2016, 01:50:37 PM The site have been accused as scam since 2014 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=795023.0) but still many people are using them and continue to lose bitcoins.
If you want a vanity address, visit this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0) thread and download the software (although not updated for years). An average computer takes only few seconds for a vanity address of 5 leading digits except for some special prefixes. For vanity addresses of 6 digits, it takes only few minutes. Title: Re: Bitcoinvanitygen.com Post by: cengsuwuei on December 21, 2016, 01:58:40 PM if you create custom addres
but must use private key is very danger if you give to person your private key, your balance can lost all bitcoin Title: Re: Bitcoinvanitygen.com Post by: anorganix on December 21, 2016, 02:06:48 PM Hi this was explained thousands of times on the forum, and for a hero member like you sounds even more extrange. Bitcoinvanity.com its the website of the creator of vanitygen here is the link to the post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0) That is not correct, there is not a single reference of the site in the OP of the link you posted. The site is a scam, never allow 3rd parties to use/see/store your private key! Use Vanitygen program to create a vanity address on your PC (make sure it's not infected with a virus) or user split-key generation service. Title: Re: Bitcoinvanitygen.com Post by: MadGamer on December 21, 2016, 02:43:54 PM Hi this was explained thousands of times on the forum, and for a hero member like you sounds even more extrange. Bitcoinvanity.com its the website of the creator of vanitygen here is the link to the post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0) Vanitygen has the option to split key whn youre generating a private key -snip- Clearly you don't really know what you are talking about , Bitcoinvanity.com doesn't exist , I already know about vanitygen however I don't have enough computing power so I was asking about it. samr7 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=20336) don't have anything to do with this service as last time he connected was in 2012 and the bitcoinvanitygen came to life in 2014 and there is no mention of it on the thread either and about the method to ask for someone else to create the address then this service is not using it , they are only claiming that they remove any traces from their servers which is hard to believe. The site have been accused as scam since 2014 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=795023.0) but still many people are using them and continue to lose bitcoins. I missed that scam accusation, I will just stay away from it and find a service on the forums that does that .If you want a vanity address, visit this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0) thread and download the software (although not updated for years). An average computer takes only few seconds for a vanity address of 5 leading digits except for some special prefixes. For vanity addresses of 6 digits, it takes only few minutes. Title: Re: Bitcoinvanitygen.com Post by: 400actforsale on December 21, 2016, 02:56:24 PM The site have been accused as scam since 2014 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=795023.0) but still many people are using them and continue to lose bitcoins. I missed that scam accusation, I will just stay away from it and find a service on the forums that does that .If you want a vanity address, visit this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0) thread and download the software (although not updated for years). An average computer takes only few seconds for a vanity address of 5 leading digits except for some special prefixes. For vanity addresses of 6 digits, it takes only few minutes. You may want to hire someone on this forum by posting in the 'Services' board, or go to a vanity pool (currently the only one is live at https://vanitypool.appspot.com) and pay for a solution (though it may take forever). Title: Re: Bitcoinvanitygen.com Post by: Joel_Jantsen on December 21, 2016, 03:00:12 PM I saw the website once a while ago while searching on google but I'm starting to see in some signatures in the forums now , on the official website (http://bitcoinvanitygen.com/) they are claiming that they generated more then 24,000 address for users , I want to know If someone experienced any theft from their vanity addresses after using this service or not because using an online service to generate a vanity address for you requires a lot of trust . In short words,avoid using the site as they have control over your private keys.You could google "BitcoinVanitygen Scam" and check the cases of their fraudulent practices.I'd recommend buying a vanity address from shorena (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=181801)Title: Re: Bitcoinvanitygen.com Post by: anorganix on December 21, 2016, 03:04:22 PM See this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1424634.0) or this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1257817.0).
What is the prefix you want? Title: Re: Bitcoinvanitygen.com Post by: BitHodler on December 21, 2016, 03:15:45 PM It doesn't really matter whether or not people have been experiencing theft from their generated addresses.
What matters is that you are making use of an external source to generate your private keys, where you don't know if things are being logged or not. Even when they say that there is no way they store anything that people generate, don't ever fully put your trust on it. Caution is always required here. Title: Re: Bitcoinvanitygen.com Post by: BoXXoB on December 21, 2016, 03:38:05 PM Do not trust any site to do the job for you. Your best bet is probably getting help from LoyceV or shorena though depending on your PC specs you could do it by yourself. It's a very easy thing to make one for yourself as long as you're not looking for a vanity address of over 6 digits. The main thing to remember is that you should never take a private key that has been fully generated by someone else.
Title: Re: Bitcoinvanitygen.com Post by: kolloh on December 21, 2016, 03:47:45 PM It is safe to let someone else generate a key for you as long as you are using the partial private key method (also assuming you generate the partial private key locally and not on their website). With this method, the other party never has access to the actual private key you will be using. You should NEVER use an address generated by another site or person if they had access to the full private key. That is just asking for trouble.
Title: Re: Bitcoinvanitygen.com Post by: MadGamer on December 24, 2016, 09:19:51 AM See this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1424634.0) or this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1257817.0). What is the prefix you want? I wanted the prefix as my username but I guess that would take long and even longer If I do it case sensitive , and since a lot of people suggested it and the scam accusation I've fund against the service , I'm going to try find something smaller and check shorena's or LoyceV's services . Title: Re: Bitcoinvanitygen.com Post by: anorganix on December 24, 2016, 11:54:15 AM Try something like GamerX and it should be fine.
I can help also if you are interested, same method as LoyceV's/shorena's. Later edit (case-sensitive, otherwise substract 50%): - 5 chars (0.00 BTC aka free) - 6 chars (0.01 BTC) - 7 chars (0.02 BTC) |