Title: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: Timelord2067 on June 06, 2019, 07:02:18 AM W.I.P. [List] Vanity Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links
[Downloads (#post_Downloads)] | [How To's (#post_howto)] | [Discussion Threads (#post_threads)] | [External Links (#post_external)] This is a thread to list the various vanity wallet generation threads with links on how to and downloads of various programs. First off you'll need a really really good [Downloads] | [How To's (#post_howto)] | [Discussion Threads (#post_threads)] | [External Links (#post_external)]
[Downloads (#post_Downloads)] | [How To's] | [Discussion Threads (#post_threads)] | [External Links (#post_external)] (Portions copied from samr7 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=20336)'s thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0)) How do I import the private key into bitcoin? If you wish to spend coins received on a vanity address created by vanitygen, you must import the private key into a bitcoin client. There are two popular methods of doing this with the standard Satoshi bitcoin client: Use the importprivkey command. To do this, select Help -> Debug Window, and in the window, on the bottom line, enter importprivkey <privatekey>, e.g. Code: importprivkey 5J4XJRyLVgzbXEgh8VNi4qovLzxRftzMd8a18KkdXv4EqAwX3tS Jackjack's pywallet script (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.0) is an all-in-one tool that directly modifies the wallet.dat file. This works with a normal, unpatched bitcoin client, but does require Python with the bsddb package. [Downloads (#post_Downloads)] | [How To's (#post_howto)] | [Discussion Threads (note, if it says [Archive] chances are the thread is defunct)] | [External Links (#post_external)]
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Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: Timelord2067 on June 07, 2019, 07:31:22 AM Have just recalled BitCoinVanityGen website - can anyone recall the URL (dot com??) - I vaguely recall they had the PrivateKeys and emailed them to a user, hence it was considered unsafe.
*edit* have added two defunct threads:
as well as how-to text and sample commands Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: feryjhie on June 08, 2019, 06:01:15 AM Maybe you can add this thread VanitySearch (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112311) it's just like vanitygen but it has more feature
i already made a tutorial of how to segwit vanity address on this thread [GUIDE] How To Create Vanity Address (Segwit) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5144752) Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: Timelord2067 on June 08, 2019, 06:41:30 AM Maybe you can add this thread VanitySearch (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112311) it's just like vanitygen but it has more feature i already made a tutorial of how to segwit vanity address on this thread [GUIDE] How To Create Vanity Address (Segwit) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5144752) Thanks for the links, have added four just now:
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Can you check the [Downloads (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5151346.new#post_Downloads)] section to ensure I have all relevant information please? Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: feryjhie on June 08, 2019, 03:43:30 PM Maybe you can add this thread VanitySearch (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112311) it's just like vanitygen but it has more feature i already made a tutorial of how to segwit vanity address on this thread [GUIDE] How To Create Vanity Address (Segwit) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5144752) Thanks for the links, have added four just now:
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Can you check the [Downloads (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5151346.new#post_Downloads)] section to ensure I have all relevant information please? it has correct information in that link but don't you think it will be good to just put a link to download the app under that section instead of a quote from the thread? Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: Timelord2067 on June 08, 2019, 10:48:33 PM it has correct information in that link but don't you think it will be good to just put a link to download the app under that section instead of a quote from the thread? That's a good point - just to explain what I'm doing I'm gathering the information and putting it on the page and anything useful I'm pulling off of the relevant page and once I think I've scoured enough information (there's a few hundred pages of posts to go through) I'll be tidying up the OP and taking down the W.I.P. (work in progress) tag. I appreciate your feedback and don't see any reason why that can't be done. Kudos. Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: Timelord2067 on June 28, 2019, 03:34:51 AM Have found an external site that offers to create vanity wallets - my donation address 1GaLLifreynEg6456XqDKYJYyBmyY2cJbw can't be created by them with an eight letter/digit costing one bitcoin:
https://vanity.coin.dance/#!/ Coin Dance VanityBETA [img width=300]https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/17/blobc8f5fdb092bbfe48.jpeg[/img] They appear to use split key so they *might* be safe (haven't tried them) they do however link to a walk-through: How to Create Custom Bitcoin Addresses (e.g. 1Moon4Cmwi...) https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@mooncryption/how-to-create-custom-bitcoin-addresses-e-g-1moon4cmwi Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: malevolent on June 28, 2019, 11:28:02 AM It's worth mentioning that VanitySearch is faster than vanitygen up to several times at finding private keys to vanity addresses:
On my Intel Core i7-4770, VanitySearch runs ~4 times faster than vanitygen64. (1.32 Mkey/s -> 5.27 MK/s) On my GeForce GTX 645, VanitySearch runs ~1.5 times faster than oclvanitygen. (9.26 Mkey/s -> 14.548 MK/s) If you want to compare VanitySearch and Vanitygen result, use the -u option for searching uncompressed address. VanitySearch may not compute a good gridsize for your GPU, so make several tries using -g options in order to find best performances. Using compressed addresses is roughly 20% faster. Other links of potential interest: Vanitygen Plus: https://github.com/exploitagency/vanitygen-plus/tree/master/ edit: typo Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: Timelord2067 on June 28, 2019, 02:16:04 PM It's worth mentioning that VanitySearch than vanitygen is up to several times faster at finding private keys to vanity addresses: On my Intel Core i7-4770, VanitySearch runs ~4 times faster than vanitygen64. (1.32 Mkey/s -> 5.27 MK/s) On my GeForce GTX 645, VanitySearch runs ~1.5 times faster than oclvanitygen. (9.26 Mkey/s -> 14.548 MK/s) If you want to compare VanitySearch and Vanitygen result, use the -u option for searching uncompressed address. VanitySearch may not compute a good gridsize for your GPU, so make several tries using -g options in order to find best performances. Using compressed addresses is roughly 20% faster. Other links of potential interest: Vanitygen Plus: https://github.com/exploitagency/vanitygen-plus/tree/master/ Hey thanks for the additional information - I'm looking forward to trying out the software sooner rather than later. I vaguely recall being PM'ed about VanityGen Plus, but got bogged down with other stuff and let it slide. Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: WhyFhy on August 15, 2019, 12:49:59 PM This has been very helpful, thank you!
I'm going to try out VanitySearch I've been on Plus but Search seems to have really good speeds. Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: LoyceV on August 15, 2019, 07:34:50 PM Have just recalled BitCoinVanityGen website - can anyone recall the URL (dot com??) - I vaguely recall they had the PrivateKeys and emailed them to a user, hence it was considered unsafe. It's heavily promoted on Beginners & Help (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=39.0) (which doesn't show Trust ratings) by user/scammer Velkro (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=303026).I'm just leaving Pretty Addy Giveaway - part 2 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1813624.0) here, up to you if you want to add it :) I remember a very impressive idea presented by gmaxwell to improve split-key generation: Say you have N people who each want to find a vanity tweak of their pubkeys which will roughly take M million tries to find. (click the quote to read the full post/context)You can find all N of them with just ~M million tries, instead of the N*M million tries if they were to do them themselves alone. Here is how. Each person has a pubkey P_i, they all come up with uniformly random tweaks T_i. They tweak their keys, and send these resulting public keys to the hashing server. They keep the tweak and original pubkey private. They also send the string(s) they want to match. They stay connected. The sever takes all the strings and compiles them into a single match expression (which can be matched in log() operations at worst, probably better). Then the server sums all the tweaked pubkeys and grinds on it comparing the output with the omnibus matcher. When it gets a hit it then demands all clients except the one with the match to tell them the private keys for their tweaked keys (this reveals nothing about the original private key, since it's been tweaked). It then sums up the tweak it found and everyone elses private keys and gives that to the lucky user. Everyone remaining sends new tweaked pubkeys (probably in the same message they sent their prior private keys). They get summed and the process continues with the new basepoint. If someone fails to send their private key, you kick them off and ban them and you lose that result because you cannot reconstruct the tweaks without everyone elses keys. Implemented correctly this is completely secure. As far as I know, this hasn't been implemented yet. Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: Timelord2067 on August 16, 2019, 02:32:24 AM Thanks for the info - I'll be fixing up some stuff over the next few days, hopfully it looks a little more readable then.
Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: Financisto on June 18, 2020, 01:27:49 AM Thank you for compiling all this useful info!
Do you know any generator of Bech32 address format? edit: just found something here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2934774.0 That might be of your interest in order to add it to your list Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: Timelord2067 on June 18, 2020, 01:49:31 AM Thank you for compiling all this useful info! Do you know any generator of Bech32 address format? Thanks for the question - not off the top of my head - you can use the tried and true method of bulk creation via a paper wallet site such as this one: https://segwitaddress.org/bech32/ and generate a few thousand to find a short prefix solution. You might want to have a look at this thread: VanitySearch (Yet another address prefix finder) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112311.0) I've only used it to find prefix "3" wallet addresses. Having said that when I import them into core, I get three wallet addresses for the price of one - a "1" and "3" and "bc" variety wallet address. If you find any I would appreciate it if you could please advise so I can list them here. Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: WhyFhy on May 08, 2022, 04:02:37 AM Thanks for adding our service to your directory!
We hope that people can utilize it easily and enjoy it! Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: LoyceV on October 14, 2023, 06:38:03 AM I get the feeling vanity addresses lost popularity after Segwit. I still use one (for historical reasons), but that's it. It's not worth the additional transaction fee, and bc1q-vanity addresses look much less nice.
Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: Timelord2067 on October 14, 2023, 06:58:53 AM I get the feeling vanity addresses lost popularity after Segwit. I still use one (for historical reasons), but that's it. It's not worth the additional transaction fee, and bc1q-vanity addresses look much less nice. Never-the-less there may be person's who have an interest in the subject hence the infrequent bump. Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: DaveF on October 14, 2023, 02:22:51 PM And for the OCD among us, or at least those who have the great idea that I will get organized *soon* it allows us to categorize some things.
i.e. bc1qCarStuff...... or bc1qH0tSauce.... or bc1qC0llect and so on. So this way looking back later I would be able to figure out what was what without searching though a bunch of random addresses. Have not really been doing it, but there was that plan.... -Dave Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: Synchronice on October 15, 2023, 07:27:56 AM I get the feeling vanity addresses lost popularity after Segwit. I still use one (for historical reasons), but that's it. It's not worth the additional transaction fee, and bc1q-vanity addresses look much less nice. If you only make a bitcoin transactions once in a while when fees are low, then additional transaction fee worth the beautiful address. But it's good that they lost popularity.My opinion is that vanitygen addresses should be avoided because it can attract scammers and make scam successful. For example, let's say that your regular address is 1LoyceVg9reuh89fwjfdshf8as9fasdx. We all know it's your address, name itself suggests. Let's say that scammer creates address that starts with 1LoyceV, creates a fake telegram with your name or let's say, hacks your account and asks for coins. Since humans aren't cautious, there is a very high chance that scammer will use that advantage, will make people confident that scam address belongs to LoyceV and it's actually LoyCev and finally, will scam people. To be honest, that's just my hypothesis but I bet that's not far from reality. That's why I prefer to use randomly generated address. Vanity addresses are good for decoration. Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: LoyceV on October 15, 2023, 08:20:29 AM And for the OCD among us, or at least those who have the great idea that I will get organized *soon* it allows us to categorize some things. Why not use labels in your wallet for this? By using vanity addresses as labels, you're basically making your labels public. It's bad for privacy.i.e. bc1qCarStuff...... or bc1qH0tSauce.... or bc1qC0llect and so on. So this way looking back later I would be able to figure out what was what without searching though a bunch of random addresses. Have not really been doing it, but there was that plan.... For example, let's say that your regular address is 1LoyceVg9r******* You made me curious how many of the 1,219,157,164 used Bitcoin addresses (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5265993.0) contain "LoyceV" (case insensitive):Code: 1Dd7BCtAQLEsKAn8LoYceVnChJugppMXbM The list is a lot longer with "DaveF" (1699 entries) :D Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: DaveF on October 15, 2023, 01:17:23 PM And for the OCD among us, or at least those who have the great idea that I will get organized *soon* it allows us to categorize some things. Why not use labels in your wallet for this? By using vanity addresses as labels, you're basically making your labels public. It's bad for privacy.i.e. bc1qCarStuff...... or bc1qH0tSauce.... or bc1qC0llect and so on. So this way looking back later I would be able to figure out what was what without searching though a bunch of random addresses. Have not really been doing it, but there was that plan.... When I am posting an address here for payment, or on another forum the loss of privacy by having it public is just about 0 if someone is looking. Having a QR code on the table at the car show swap meet probably is worse. For example, let's say that your regular address is 1LoyceVg9r******* You made me curious how many of the 1,219,157,164 used Bitcoin addresses (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5265993.0) contain "LoyceV" (case insensitive):Code: 1Dd7BCtAQLEsKAn8LoYceVnChJugppMXbM The list is a lot longer with "DaveF" (1699 entries) :D That's 5 characters for DaveF vs 6 for LoyceV so even eliminating the ones we posted those numbers are probably going to be similar for other character sets. As I said, I never actually did as much with it as I wanted to, but there was a plan. All in all, I still see Vanity addresses popping up and people using them, but it seems to have always been a more people who REALLY like BTC vs people who use BTC thing. -Dave Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: philipma1957 on October 16, 2023, 01:42:01 PM And for the OCD among us, or at least those who have the great idea that I will get organized *soon* it allows us to categorize some things. Why not use labels in your wallet for this? By using vanity addresses as labels, you're basically making your labels public. It's bad for privacy.i.e. bc1qCarStuff...... or bc1qH0tSauce.... or bc1qC0llect and so on. So this way looking back later I would be able to figure out what was what without searching though a bunch of random addresses. Have not really been doing it, but there was that plan.... For example, let's say that your regular address is 1LoyceVg9r******* You made me curious how many of the 1,219,157,164 used Bitcoin addresses (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5265993.0) contain "LoyceV" (case insensitive):Code: 1Dd7BCtAQLEsKAn8LoYceVnChJugppMXbM The list is a lot longer with "DaveF" (1699 entries) :D could you research 1957philipma any case or spot. I wanted to do a 1957philipma but it would have been a lot of spots. I did do my wife's account My alt is judypug1956 vanity addy: 1956jUdYPFwiBSzt9AECdWj3KE4WV7taiM this was 9 spots and was slow on a thread ripper. Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: LoyceV on October 16, 2023, 02:18:15 PM could you research 1957philipma any case or spot. I had to shorten it to just "1957ph" to get any results:Code: 1957pHpw2NczcBMoCZfDZnn61MtAEj5xq Here's a bonus for "philip": Code: 1PhiLipWvVjPqi6HtMEMfKtTkusPMYKMEw Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: apogio on October 18, 2023, 09:18:36 AM Just for testing reasons, I have developed a Vanity Address generator in Java. Here is the thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5467234.0 Feel free to check it out.
Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: Timelord2067 on October 18, 2023, 09:29:45 AM Just for testing reasons, I have developed a Vanity Address generator in Java. Here is the thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5467234.0 Feel free to check it out. Hey thanks for the advice. Does it work on a NUC PC? It's been years since I had a box with graphics cards. Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: apogio on October 18, 2023, 09:44:21 AM Hey thanks for the advice. Does it work on a NUC PC? It's been years since I had a box with graphics cards. It can run on a NUC yes! However please note that it is slower than other options and that I have developed it out of curiousity and not to make it a super useful program. Any advice is welcome ofcourse. Title: Re: [List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links Post by: ABCbits on October 18, 2023, 11:21:42 AM And for the OCD among us, or at least those who have the great idea that I will get organized *soon* it allows us to categorize some things. i.e. bc1qCarStuff...... or bc1qH0tSauce.... or bc1qC0llect and so on. Your idea violate BIP 173 though. I also expect some software would throw error or invalid address message. Decoders MUST NOT accept strings where some characters are uppercase and some are lowercase (such strings are referred to as mixed case strings). |