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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: abshnasko on January 18, 2014, 08:46:39 PM



Title: How do I generate custom Bitcoin address?
Post by: abshnasko on January 18, 2014, 08:46:39 PM
I'm sure this has been asked before so this is at the risk of being modded into oblivion: How do I create addresses like:

1Findme1JJ2CrxHA1BCm28HyyE11ia1vdN
1abshnasko2CrxHA1BCm28HyyE11ia1vdN

etc


Title: Re: How do I generate custom Bitcoin address?
Post by: odolvlobo on January 18, 2014, 08:50:57 PM
I'm sure this has been asked before so this is at the risk of being modded into oblivion: How do I create addresses like:

1Findme1JJ2CrxHA1BCm28HyyE11ia1vdN
1abshnasko2CrxHA1BCm28HyyE11ia1vdN

etc

Search for vanity bitcoin address generator


Title: Re: How do I generate custom Bitcoin address?
Post by: byt411 on January 18, 2014, 09:03:21 PM
Check PM.


Title: Re: How do I generate custom Bitcoin address?
Post by: abshnasko on January 18, 2014, 10:38:42 PM
byt411, if I was looking to pay someone for this, I'd have posted in Marketplace and not Technical Support. Go hustle someone else.


Title: Re: How do I generate custom Bitcoin address?
Post by: yogi on January 18, 2014, 10:40:07 PM
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen)


Title: Re: How do I generate custom Bitcoin address?
Post by: byt411 on January 18, 2014, 10:46:00 PM
byt411, if I was looking to pay someone for this, I'd have posted in Marketplace and not Technical Support. Go hustle someone else.

Well good luck with that. Generating an address starting with "1abshnasko" requires many ASICS. It is practically impossible.
On the other hand, ones like 1Findme would at least need a few GPUs, one wouldn't do the trick.
Generating Vanity Addresses take time and luck.


Title: Re: How do I generate custom Bitcoin address?
Post by: abshnasko on January 18, 2014, 10:59:55 PM
"abshnasko" was an example... thanks for the advice.


Title: Re: How do I generate custom Bitcoin address?
Post by: DannyHamilton on January 19, 2014, 02:03:08 AM
Vanity Address Generator is the tool that many people choose to use to do it.

The technical answer to your question (and the way that Vanity Address Generator works) is to keep generating random addresses as fast as you can and check each one to see if it matches the pattern you are looking for.  Stop when you find one you like.