You probably would be safer using the key mining pool. https://vanitypool.appspot.com/Or I could run my 780ti for a couple hours and it probably would generate pretty fast EDIT: 50% is in 3 hours if interested. I really appreciate the offer for this. TBH, I have to work on quite a few other projects today and tomorrow but as soon as I get a chance to look into this more closely I'll more than likely contact you to take you up on this. Again, many thanks. It's not that I'm unappreciative, I've just gotta knock out some other priorities before looking more closely into vanity addresses  Cheers! Edit: Another thing I just thought of is the fact that I have an old Antminer which hashes as about 3GH/sec, I have no idea if it's possible to use this to find a vanity address but I would think that it is in principle. Maybe I should read more on how to point vanitygen to my miner (right now it's just running on an oldish amd64 at my work ). I don't believe Bitcoin addresses are based of sha-256 algorithms. ASIC miners are built with one purpose, to heat your place, and mine bitcoins. The only things that can utilize this are sha-256 alt currencies and anything running sha-256(sha-256) Good point, that final comment was obviously some sort of wishful thinking on my part. Thanks again for all the help here. I'll be looking into this more carefully soon. Cheers again! No problem. There are many uses for your old antminer. Boil water, dry clothes, heat in the winter, maybe cook an egg on, a paperweight. The possibilities are endless! |
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You probably would be safer using the key mining pool. https://vanitypool.appspot.com/Or I could run my 780ti for a couple hours and it probably would generate pretty fast EDIT: 50% is in 3 hours if interested. I really appreciate the offer for this. TBH, I have to work on quite a few other projects today and tomorrow but as soon as I get a chance to look into this more closely I'll more than likely contact you to take you up on this. Again, many thanks. It's not that I'm unappreciative, I've just gotta knock out some other priorities before looking more closely into vanity addresses Cheers! Edit: Another thing I just thought of is the fact that I have an old Antminer which hashes as about 3GH/sec, I have no idea if it's possible to use this to find a vanity address but I would think that it is in principle. Maybe I should read more on how to point vanitygen to my miner (right now it's just running on an oldish amd64 at my work ). I don't believe Bitcoin addresses are based of sha-256 algorithms. ASIC miners are built with one purpose, to heat your place, and mine bitcoins. The only things that can utilize this are sha-256 alt currencies and anything running sha-256(sha-256) |
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tspacepilot@god:~/src/vanitygen$ ./vanitygen -v 1WALNUT Yeah, probably just bad luck then. 7-character prefix will take a while on most hardware and the bad end of variance scales accordingly. If you're keen on having it, generate a private/public key pair, post the public key here, and maybe some kind folks will attempt a search for you. See the discussion on split key generation a page or 2 back for details. Right on, for the moment I've got no rush so I'll just let it crank away for a while. If I get desperate sometime a week or so from now then I may just take you up on that. Thanks TheRealSteve. I'm not sure what version you are running, but I checked on my system: $ ./vanitygen -v 1WALNUT
Prefix difficulty: 888446610538 1WALNUT
Difficulty: 888446610538
$ ./vanitygen -v -i 1WALNUT
Prefix difficulty: 27763956579 1WALNUT
The difficulty with and without the -i (ignore case) is different, and my ignore case is giving the same difficulty as your code dump. It seems your version is looking for the all caps, but is showing difficulty equal to my ignore case command. So all the probability is calculated based on a wrong number, it will probably take about 888/27 = 38 times longer to find a single key. based on ~350Kkey/s about 20 days to hit the 50% Interesting. I'm using a version that I checked out from git just last week. I installed the build-deps for debian and then ran make and I was off and running. Oh this, I look closer and I see that I've also got -i set, whoopsy! That explains the descrepancy. Given the fact that you can't have lower case "l" in a bitcoin address, I may just need to look into that split key thingy and/or use a better computer for this project Thanks for pointing this out! You probably would be safer using the key mining pool. https://vanitypool.appspot.com/Or I could run my 780ti for a couple hours and it probably would generate pretty fast EDIT: 50% is in 3 hours if interested. |
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Ends tomorrow
Wow 5 and a half hours left and the highest bid is only paying .075 per coin... |
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I'll take it for $100 shipped. Do you accept paypal? What is the serial on this one? Can we do the transaction through eBay so I'm protected as the buyer? Kinda new here, sorry to be difficult.
Buy some bitcoin and use an escrow. For example, devthedev, OgNasty, tomatocage are all legitimate escrows. Nobody here likes paypal, because you can reverse the transaction. |
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Maybe, but why not just buy coin on the market? Note I think this is why difficulty has been so stuck as of late, the 10nm technology just doesn't seem to be appearing.
we haven't even broken 20nm publicly, maybe knc, or someone did it privately but... |
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Some people can afford to mine at a loss, and that makes it a profitable business
Uh, what? It's not "at a loss" if is is "a profitable business", you have to pick one. I mine for hobby, I mine at a loss, I want to see the difficulty go down down down! I think he means at the time it is at a loss because the coins mined would equal less than the electricity bill. But he also means it is profitable if the BTC price jumps up, like january to march lows of $180 to highs of almost $300 |
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id be happy to buy a ticket, if you escrow the funds tomatoecage
Let me talk to tomatocage. I'll see if I can arrange for him to hold the funds, and I'll get back to you |
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Bumping and also going to close this thread in four weeks if no interest is shown. I do always love constructive criticism  |
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so its all LUCK !!! else there would be nothing for years........correct  It is luck, if you're feeling lucky solo mine, if not don't. (or point your unprofitable miners in hopes of hitting a block) The more gh/s, th/s, ph/s the more luck you have. It is playing the Bitcoin lottery, just like the powerball. |
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I would like to get a free t-shirt, I'll submit my design later on.
And I am in the US
The top 4 spots have been filled out as stated here up to this point. There is 1 free spot left. After that all shirts will go up to $10 plus shipping ( I use Nice quality shirts that cost me $3-4 a piece so at $10 that doesn't even begin to factor in with my time emulsions etc. Get em while theyre hot Can I use this logo as the back of a white t-shirt? (I can link it instead if you need...)
[img]http://i.gyazo.com/0c0788ecf584b27f7e56d745eb54976f.png
EDIT: Just not to be the odd ball, I'll go with your design as it'll probably be good for your printing |
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Offering special services, 1BTC...
You win. I can't beat that. Well want to create a special service monopoly? That raises funds for both of us. Then buy the coin and split it in half. Right down the middle. It'll be one of a kind and the rarest thus making each half worth 22 BTC. Very sound business strategy. *Also extremely off-topic |
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Some people can afford to mine at a loss, and that makes it a profitable business
This doesn't make it a profitable business, this is what's making competitive business. The home miner game is still alive, people know that renting mine power from a service like hashnest could cost them less than maintaining their own, yet they trust their own hardware more. I personally know people that mine at home 24/7 with not more than a single Th/s. They know that electricity might be costing them more but are betting on a price increase. I will admit that I do this, I like my two s3's supporting the network, even if my electricity cost and mining profits almost zero out each other. I never will ROI, unless I sell my gear. But I enjoy making some coin here and there. And I can always diagnose my problems on the spot incase something happens. |
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I hope you're right.
It would mean mine is worth a lot more.
Oh wait.... I don't have one yet. Shit.
We best be on our adventures to aquiring 22 BTC for that coin... Offering special services, 1 BTC... |
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If you want to actually do mining, then try out ONE S3, and put some of your other cash into Bitcoin directly (e.g. via coinbase). You can keep your costs under control with S3, and possibly lose less money by lowering it's speed to improve the efficiency (i.e. more GH per watt). If the price of Bitcoin goes up, you just might make a few bucks. You will NOT get rich by doing anything with Bitcoin.
Unless you are good at business, marketing and flipping items for bitcoin Other great ideas: Gamble away your Bitcoin! Invest your Bitcoin in some shady sites! Not research gambles or investments and just throw bitcoins at it. NOTE: DO NOT DO THIS. |
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What price is your electricity? It is one big factor in if your make a profit.
Is there a website that will tell me this based on my Zip-Code? I don't mind sharing my Zip, it's 80130. It should be in your electricity bill. Make sure to add taxes and things they tax on. I live in the same area, it should be $0.11 per kwh. If you were to keep two s3's on for a month it would run you $50 roughly, based on my bill, and with a platinum power supply. |
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You obviously have the cooling under control, sort of, what are the electric costs there? I agree that 50C is plenty hot (well over 120F for us non-Celsius folks).
I don't actually know, it's a really old friends'. All I know is the apartment buildings have a set maintenance fee each month that you pay anyways. So, you can use up as much electricity as you want and always pay the same thing, mining or not. Very convenient. There has to be more to that contract, like a certain kwh per month that can be done. Because in life everything isn't always free... |
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+0.76 to +1.00 with my guess at 0.77
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With only ~350gh I've yet to get a best share in the billions (been mining about a month), best I've seen was 383M I believe.
I had my block eruptors pull a 30m share, but only do a mil or two now and then... I was really surprised. |
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