From the topic title I expected a 0.005 BTC deal, which already surprised me you're asking for escrow for such a low amount.
I can do it too, but I'm not that trusted here I think I am a trusted Mod elsewhere, but can't/won't use that here.
How long ago did you try to contact "the usual" escrows on bitcointalk?

The secret: be happy with what you have! I know it's not always easy though, as humans tend to always want more.

I doubt it. Hundreds of millions of Europeans are forced to use a currency they didn't grew up on. That doesn't stop them from using it, although I don't know anybody who liked the switch.

It touched $550 yesterday already for a moment. Now it's about $20 under the peak. I'm guessing $600 in July now. But that's just speculation of course

If you mean blockchain.info: it works fine. You can't show an empty address and be surprised nothing is in there. If you're in doubt, try a different block explorer, for instance http://blockexplorer.com/ .

That's not how any of this works You must have the wrong address.

I gave up on most altcoins, it's a lot easier to manage just a few different coins. I did try a lot, but I know I lose from the big whales and experienced traders.
I still have some left, but only a few dollars worth.

It is pure PR indeed. The whole idea behind a "pre sale" makes no sense other than trying to start a bubble, hoping people will join, only to make the bubble stronger.
This will probably be repeated a few more times, just like a lot of altcoins were created in the past thoping to blow a bubble to make the person who started it rich.
For altcoins it doesn't really work anymore, so now the next phase is "dapps". This will work until it fails, and from that moment it won't work for any new "dappcoin" anymore.

You must have an onboard graphics card, right? My laptop has an onboard GeForce, so it can even be quite acceptable for vanity searching.
It's too slow though to be profitable for the mining pool, and if you're running CPU only, I doubt it will be worth your time and electricity.

A week later it's 520 dollar! Next week 600 if this continues.
Totally destroyed indeed

Any idea why I am no longer on the list? I was there after I posted, the only user with 34 points

WARNING! DO NOT use the site advertised by the Red Trust user above!
Too bad red trust doesn't show up on this topic, so scammers can happily advertise their scam in this topic.

bitcoin stolen from the address generated by bitcionvanitygen.com

Same here, I thought it was the server that's down, but it's not. Shift-Reload solved it.

I saw that too
So far I was too late for the first, very close for the second, missed the third, and hit the forth

You're welcome
It's still a free service, as the new thread name says.

Top-notch security would be if the user doesn't need to trust anybody, including you. I suggest you only offer split-key addresses, to take away all doubt anybody could have.

Also, be careful offering fixed fees for a certain number of prefixes. If someone askes 11111111 it has the same length as 1exampLe (1example is not possible), but takes 2000 times longer.

Still available! I saw another topic pop up that offers short addresses at a price, so I figured I'd bump this one with a new title

A chance to find something simply isn't lineair, as it will never reach 100% chance.
The chance always stays the same: if it's 500 hours for 50% chance, it's exactly the same chance after you've run it after a week. That's why you can just as well restart the the search at any moment.

500 hours for 50% chance
500 more hours for 75% chance (1000 hours total)
500 more hours for 87.5% chance (1500 hours total)
etc.

Lol, why would you archive my typo? I fixed it now, I just hit the wrong button.

Exactly. The "percentage left" is cut in half every x minutes, where x is the time it shows you for 50% when you start it.

It is But the other way around: 100-50=50%, and that takes half the time of 100-25=75%.

I hit the wrong button, the last = was - earlier. Edited to fix it