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hello everyone, I was looking for a vanity address generator, I searched Bitcointalk and found many following topics but

1. [GUIDE] How To Create Vanity Address (Segwit) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5144752.0) by feryjhie, but I could not write my full username like Dictator with this, as this vanitysearch has limitations

I tested it though, it worked for other letters, but I wanted to make an address for my username, only dictator can be enough I don't want 69.

2.  [Guide] How to create your customized Bitcoin-Address (vanitygen) – step by step (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5096373.0) I visited this thread, but the zip file that includes the .exe file of the vanitygen (https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen) is not available, I could only find a file, that does not have any .exe file in it, so can I proceed with it! I don't think so.


3. VanityGen Updated Guide (Get your own vanity address easily) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5133462.0) The download link on this thread for the vanitygen zip file is also invalid, it says "not found" I guess it is broken, i checked the url name, it is the same as samr7 in point 2.

4. VanitySearch (Yet another address prefix finder) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112311.0) by Jean_Luc It is also same as number 1, with the same limitations of not finding letter that are in my username.

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Is there any vanity address generator, that can make me an address I want, I searched and did not find any and if I am making any mistake please guide, thanks for your help. Regards.

You listed many guide threads and I believe in them, you can find softwares to use for your interest of creating a Vanity address.

Question: what is currently the best software for generating vanity addresses? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5523103.0)
Generating Vanity addresses (https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/ch04_keys.adoc#generating-vanity-addresses) has wide range of average search time from easy to impossible depends on Vanity address patterns. Please read in the link to Chapter on Keys and Addresses in Mastering Bitcoin book.

i have used this in the past:

https://github.com/10gic/vanitygen-plusplus

but, haven't used in a while since i don't feel like using vanity address anymore plus my cpu is shite :D

fair warning though, use this at ur own risk,, no vouch n im not responsible for any losses

I remember few years ago forum member LoyceV had a giveaway for vanity addresses, but I don't know if that is still active, and if he can create address with exact letters you want:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1813624.0

I did create several vanity addresses in past, but I used same VanitySearch you mentioned in first post.
You could try replacing characters with similar letters like l (L) instead of I (i), or 6/9 instead of 0 (zero).

PS
Be careful with using any random vanity generators found on internet, they could be owned by scammers.

Hey there mate! Umm I'm not sure about the other links you provided but for this one particularly, I have used this guide to generate vanity addressee before, and it works without any issue! The only thing I didn't use was their github repo, because that was somewhat outdated or missing. Instead I used this forked repo (https://github.com/10gic/vanitygen-plusplus) and was able to produce the same result (vanity addressee). So my suggestion would be, if u have the time, follow the guide by 1miau and use that repo as an alternative. As for the rest of the step, everything is well described in the guide and shouldn't give you any headache.

And this was my result! Hope that helps! ;)

Pattern: 1BTT (Bitcointalk)                                                                
My Vanity Address: 1BTT6np65sADJiFWkpzKUQaJ2eBWQRGSwG

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/11/28/p2nvg.png

FYI, the limitation isn't from the software but rather Bech32 address format. As the name implies, it only allows 32 different characters. Legacy address also have similar limitation, where it only allows 58 different characters.

In the first link, things that mocacinno shared seems technical because I also don't use docker, and I also not looking to make a vanity address on Linux, so this is not helping, the one that ABCbits mentioned on the same page, is the same vanitysearch which don't have the limitation but the bech32 has it, but limitations are limitations and I was hoping to find one that can generate me full name.

Nothing useful from the second link, only found a thread about vanitypool which is not what I was looking for because it is too complex as JoelKatz stated (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=81865.msg901491#msg901491)

I also have a shite cpu hehe, but this can work for me, although I just need a power device, and I can use this source you shared to make my desired vanity address, on my current device to make dictator only it can take days and for dictator69 it is going to take much longer time like ages for me hehe.

Anyway thanks for this, I will test this once I will have the power.

The thread is closed so the giveaway is finished, but he is giving away legacy, I wanted to make a segwit address. You are right I have found many easy ways to make a vanity address but I wanted to find one mentioned by trusted members on Bitcointalk because I can trust them, but I don't know about the people behind those websites that can make me vanity address quicker and easily. Thanks for the advice though.

Thank you Dying soul for this source, just few posts above, IIrik11 has also shared the same link, I tested it, and will give it a try when I will have the resources for it. Thank you for sharing your experience with it, I just wanted to ask would you use the vanity address for your transactions or to hold your Bitcoins?

Thank you for clearing this out, I thought it is a limitation with the file, I think legacy could make me a dictator address, I did not tried actually as I was looking for segwit one, but legacy only had a limitation of upper and lower case, it only accepts upper case character if I am not wrong, I will test it again.

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Thanks to everyone, although I know I can also make with the vanitysearch for "dctatr" after removing the restricted characters but I don't like it. Anyway a question to everyone, what are your suggestion to use a vanity address for holding bitcoins?

@ABCbits has already said it, maybe you can also read from here more detailed: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/122958
The point is that if Legacy address is fine for you, you can try to get one.

I actually wanted to give it a try myself with a very old vanitygen I still have on my disk for fun, but for 1dictator69 on my CPU it estimated it would take me more than 90 years to get it :D so you may want to try it on GPU or pool.
On the other hand, I find vanity addresses fun, but not worthy to pay for getting them generated (even if it can be done safely too). So maybe 1dict69 is a more feasible option, since you can do it yourself in less than an hour.

Or just leave it. Vanity addresses are nice for trading or donations. For holding and normal use... I recommend you just stick to a non-vanity SegWit, HD wallet. Maybe even with a hardware wallet; with the vanity address you can pretty fast get to reuse the address, which is not the best idea.

Just my 2 cents here, but a lot of people seem to be afraid to use docker, while in reality it's a pretty easy technology that doesn't have a steep learning curve. On top of that, you can run docker containers right on your (recent) windows machine if you want to using WSL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/wsl-containers

As an enduser, there are big upsides to running docker containers: there is no system pollution (if you remove the image, the application is gone), you can run the software without risking breaking your os, it just works (every library needed is packed right into the container)... But offcourse it's up to you to chose if you want to try it out :)

It can accept both case and the result address is case-sensitive.

You may have used a non base58 character in your last test to generate a legacy vanity address (Wiki: Base58Check (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding#Base58_symbol_chart))
But it's the other way around of what you said since the "I" and "O" in "DICTATOR" isn't valid for legacy address.
The lower-case version on the other hand, has valid characters.

For Native SegWit, you either have to use all upper-case or all lower-case, the address can't be mixed-case.

This is very helpful I was also serching some guide on this your post helped me a lot but my question is what if I want to have e.g 1BTTbreske... can i achieve it only with CPU ?

Surely you can give it a try, no harm in that, but remember, more prefixes more combinations means, there are less chances for you to find your desired vanity address. More upper case, lower case, numbers = higher difficulty = more time! And I don't know the exact mathematical calculations behind this, so I can't really answer whether your CPU can achieve that. I believe, matching 9 prefix is pretty difficult. Take a look at the quotes below..you might get the idea! ;)

I would generally not suggest using vanity addresses for cold storage or for holding larger amount of coins, especially not for newbies.
Main reason is that we don't know if enough entropy is used for generating seedphrase, so it could be easier to crack it down and steal your coins.
Same could be said for regular bitcoin addresses, but most people don't generate them manually.