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26821  Economy / Services / Pretty Addy Giveaway on: April 03, 2016, 01:58:49 PM
Don't you love having a bitcoin address that starts with a name, something pretty, or just something that suits you? You can find them yourself brute-force using vanitygen, or I can make one for you.
How about 1Pretty3icg1......?

Limitations
  • All addresses start with 1 (one)
  • Most characters are allowed, except for l (lower case L), I (upper case i), 0 (zero) and O (upper case o). You can replace these characters by something else, 1HiDE would be possible, or 1HeLLo
  • Finding an address is based on computing power, and luck. There are no guarantees
  • Difficulty increases exponentially with prefix-length
  • Addresses starting with upper case are (usually) much easier than lower case. 1Loyce takes the same amount of time to find as 1oyce
  • A 1 (one) is extremely more difficult to find than any other character, so 111111 would take 50 times longer than 1Loyce
  • 4 prefix characters are easy to find, 5 is okay too, but 6 (case insensitive) is the limit for this giveaway (and please don't ask for 111111, it is not possible)
  • 7 prefix characters is too much for this giveaway, but I can make you an offer if you post your request.

New link
I'm closing this thread.
I've opened a new one: Pretty Addy Giveaway - part 2, feel free to request your addy there.


Instructions
I can just create an address, and send you the private key. This means you have to trust me, my computer, my cat, both our email clients, and by definition it can no longer be used for cold storage. So let's not. Instead, use split key:
Step 1: Goto https://www.bitaddress.org/ move your mouse/type in the field until it shows 100% and wait a second.
Step 1.5: Optional but highly recommended. Download the page, verify the download and run it locally.
Step 2: Click Vanity Wallet click the generate buttion next to “Generate your "Step1 Key Pair"
Step 3: Reply to this thread with your public key and the prefix for your address. Save the private key somewhere safe. You will need it later when I generated your partial private key. Also, let me know if your preferred prefix is case sensitive, or any case is okay (the latter is much faster)
Step 4: Once you received your partial private key, go back to bitaddress.org and click on Vanity Wallet.
Step 5: Go to step 2 Calculate your vanity wallet. In the first field put the private key you saved and in the second field put the partial private key I gave you. Click Add and Calculate Vanity Wallet
Step 6: Copy the Vanity Private Key (WIF) and import it into your preferred wallet. For paper wallets I like https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com/ (download and use offline).
Credits to shorena for most of these instructions!
If something doesn't work as expected, have a look at this example.

Bonus
Tag this address on blockchain.info, so it shows up on blockchain.info with only the prefix instead of the full address. I have done this for 1foreverDArUNEX2gVD26vautcx3b8zTZ (the tag only shows up once there is a transaction).

Why
Why do I do this? I like it! I've been making vanity addresses for a while, I now have more than I can ever use, so why not give them away?
I hope this will be a nice long-running giveaway, but I feel the need for a disclaimer:

Disclaimer
I offer no guarantees whatsoever, I can deny any request that would take too much computing time, and I can stop or change this giveaway at any moment.

Donations are welcome: 1foreverDArUNEX2gVD26vautcx3b8zTZ (Balance: )
26822  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Tips for local transactions on: April 03, 2016, 01:39:05 PM
- Don't give your cell phone to your trading partner
I assume you mean "cell phone number", right? I would never give my phone.
If you're afraid to give your number, get a prepaid burner phone. Here I pick up a prepaid cheap Samsung phone including credit for 10 euro, and the battery lasts for weeks. This way you keep your personal number private.
26823  Other / Archival / Re: Updated Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns on: April 03, 2016, 11:16:37 AM
Rollin Signature Campaign has 5 open slots. Note that some applicants have been denied due to low quality posts or poor English.
26824  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Litecoin will see 10$ and above 2016 on: April 02, 2016, 01:24:20 PM
If someone released litecoin in 2014 or 2015, it would just be another crappy alt, but as it is older it has some respect from many of the community.
You could argue the same for Bitcoin! If all other altcoins would exist already, and someone would "invent" a chain with much higher fees, slower confirmations, and (almost) centralized miners now, who would buy it?
26825  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: [Rollin.io] Rollin April 2016 || Monthly Contests & Giveaways!!! on: April 02, 2016, 11:24:26 AM
R3 Contest Details: Roll more than 10, 50 times consecutively. Max win chance : 90%
You do not necessarily have to win 50 times, in case the win chance is less than 90%. Example: Say you bet Prediction 25, and click Higher. That gives win chance 74%, which is allowed. If you roll 50, you win. If you roll 20, you lose the bet, but as it is larger than 10, it still qualifies for R3 contest.
26826  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: [Rollin.io] Rollin April 2016 || Monthly Contests & Giveaways!!! on: April 01, 2016, 09:23:16 PM
madcoin and Cannabis congratulations on your prize Smiley The hunt is on Cheesy
26827  Other / Off-topic / Re: Bitcoin and Porn on: March 31, 2016, 02:47:05 PM



With bitcoin it will be really hard to find a real person with a real purchase, much harder than if someone pays with a creditcard. Everybody should know by now bitcoin is not completely private and all transactions can be linked back to you (for eternity!). Unless you go through the hassle to cover your tracks.
But I don't think this is more likely than paying by creditcard: the post can accidentally deliver my receipts to the neighbours, or family members or visitors can accidentally see it.
26828  Other / Archival / Re: Need to solve captchas. 1M satoshi (~$4) per 100 solved and submitted on: March 31, 2016, 01:42:30 PM
10,000 satoshi per captcha is 10 to 100 times more than any faucet pays. How many do you need solved? It may be worth building a faucet-site around it, people solve captchas for much less!

At this price I am interested for a boring evening Smiley Is it web-based or do I need to install software for it? And obviously: can you prove you're going to pay? Wink
26829  Economy / Speculation / Re: The future of Bitcoin on: March 30, 2016, 06:06:51 PM

CoinDesk : Bitcoin Undervalued By Over $200, Investment Bank Report Finds

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-undervalued-200-needham-report/
"The report values bitcoin at $655, compared to about $412 today and advises that investors buy shares in the Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC),"
I don't believe this report. Saying Bitcoin is undervalued is like saying the market is wrong. That can't be!
They can argue prices can go up in the near future, and if you believe that, you should indeed buy as much as you can now.
26830  Economy / Economics / Re: How to save money. on: March 30, 2016, 05:56:40 PM
Best way to save money is to invest in buying bitcoins and holding them as long as the price rises to a significant level.
Why bitcoin, and not etfs to spread your risks ?
26831  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Anyone know best and reliable bitcoin mixer? on: March 29, 2016, 09:53:32 PM
A bitcoin mixer makes sure that coins cannot be followed through the blockchain to someone you are paying or when you are moving your coins to a new address.

Basically, you send them a bitcoin, it gets added to a large pool of bitcoins that the mixer service owns, and it in turn sends 1 bitcoin that is not related to the 1 bitcoin that you send to them forward. This means that any trail your bitcoins left before stops at the mixing service
Your trail stops, but another trail may continue. Whatever the reason is for you to want to mix your bitcoins, it is safe to assume someone else has a worse reason to do so! If your new bitcoins pick up their trail, you're worse off than you started.

That being said, if I'd have to pick a company, I would pick bitmixer as I only see good things about it.
26832  Economy / Investor-based games / Re: BITCOINPROFIT-----LEGIT GENUINE PAYING STABLE BTC DOUBLER--- MIN: 0.0007 BTC on: March 29, 2016, 09:48:21 PM
at that moment very few invest is coming; that's why payouts are delayed..
That means you are running out of new people to get scammed, which is a good thing.
If you would try this in real life you would end up in jail. Think about that!
26833  Economy / Services / Re: Bitcoin Vanity Addresses! on: March 29, 2016, 03:07:55 PM
I offer them on my own, but I have no problem if others adopt the model. My main cost factor is electricity and some other estimates I made to balance out the variance.
Just to be sure: So it's totally okay with you if I create my own "Get a pretty addy"-thread here, and copy your Howto on bitaddress and partial keys? Cheesy
26834  Economy / Services / Re: Bitcoin Vanity Addresses! on: March 29, 2016, 10:40:48 AM
You'd be holding the purse until the work is done, but can't actually move the funds around - and I have the carrot incentive to do the work.
I see possible problems here. Even though no single party can access the payment, what if Timelord2067 disappears* or just doesn't answer? That means Alice has paid and shorena can't access the payment for a refund. So as an escrow, this can only be used for trusted parties, and if all parties involved trust eachother, there is no need for escrow.

*For the sake of argument I've used Timelord2067 as an example, I have no reason to doubt his intentions Smiley
26835  Economy / Economics / Re: Are electric cars bad for the oil industry? on: March 28, 2016, 09:24:37 PM
Yes it is, if all the cars where electric then theres no point to pump and pump oil, cause it will be useless,  and the price oil will become deeper and deeper until it reached 1$
Cars only consume a small part of the oil produced. Think about plastics, aviation and shipping for example. And of course electricity still has to be generated, and oil can be used for that too.
26836  Economy / Services / Re: Bitcoin Vanity Addresses! on: March 28, 2016, 08:27:51 PM
Sorry for the late reply I was away for a while. The amount is about right, thanks. I have not yet gotten a public key though. Not sure if anyone else made the address for you in my absence? If so, let me know who so I can transfer the funds.
I made 1Lingga, and since its your topic, the donation is yours Smiley
26837  Economy / Services / Re: Bitcoin Vanity Addresses! on: March 28, 2016, 11:01:06 AM
a tip ? how much is it ?
That is up to you Smiley

Address found Cheesy It was like one minute, that's 2% chance on my system.
26838  Economy / Services / Re: Bitcoin Vanity Addresses! on: March 28, 2016, 10:21:34 AM
i see on first page that for 6 character it cost around 0.007 - 0.008 ?
Starting with 1L makes it much easier to find. It gives me 22 minutes for 50% chance.

If you post a public key part, I'll make one for you. You can tip shorena a donation Smiley
26839  Economy / Services / Re: Bitcoin Vanity Addresses! on: March 27, 2016, 11:47:10 AM
for example...
You have reinvented escrow, very nice!
One suggestion though: get a shorter prefix, like 1Time. It's 30 times faster to find, you don't want it to take hours if the 15 minutes for 50% turns out to be unlucky.
26840  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Wallet with lowest transcation fee on: March 27, 2016, 11:32:17 AM
With Bitcoin Core you can set your own TX fee. Pay whatever you want as fee Cheesy
The wallet is like the messenger, don't blame the messenger for the fee. It's the network that requires the fee, and wallets don't want people complaining transactions take forever, so there is a fee.
I used to do zero-fee transactions from bitcoin-qt, until it got stuck for 2 weeks. Unfortunately miners don't want larger blocks (as it is in their interest to gain higher fees), so we have to compete with eachother by paying them more.
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