that might be because of my post which should have read "here is the starting block and the last 7 blocks" ie the 8 blocks total as it was the starting one and 7 after it.

congrats everyone!

@krogothmanhattan if you want to trade that patch let me know

oh damn i was going to wait and get some slots at the end. glws

if it helps here are the starting block and the 7 following blocks after the starting block the last 7 blocks

651700 - 00000000000000000004c120225013ecf0bbcd9d29f9b51bba878d475588019d
651701 - 0000000000000000000ccefe393957d2c1e39776889bc07cac5e3d8c58de3007
651702 - 0000000000000000000bba50ac09864a5250c18b7f9aabb76729d8d1de183ace
651703 - 000000000000000000035abef4c7c230842c9c08ce922082d4d4dcbcca29500e
651704 - 0000000000000000000c22c8c85423cce85cfae86034f69a129f845967bdbd2e
651705 - 00000000000000000001270ee921d9eb90b04c1a3047975e9e0f77eb209a43c4
651706 - 000000000000000000020a9ffe8d425c4e2e1112b7165bdcb47e26e37d376c5b
651707 - 00000000000000000009e5d0bf3fae3ff6c1337939409d7f6820cb85d721632d

oh I know this - but if they keep coming back here - I will post the same message on every post they make. I would hate to see anyone else fall for their scam.

maybe but he keeps coming on the forums... last time was about 20 mins ago.

be useful and return the funds you stole from all the people that used your vanity gen ---- hundreds of addresses were emptied today all at one time.

he is not a member here to the best of my knowledge - while there is over 100 instances of the bitcoinvanitygen in the internet history, there is zero instances of these forums. he basically was lazy, the program was taking too long so he took a short cut and figured it was fine and that no one would be the wiser.


as for him emptying the addresses - there were hundreds affected i mean hundreds - one txn had 150 another had 90 something etc etc if it was him, he would have had to generated a lot of addresses and I dont think he is  a thief - just a dumb ass.



edit - as a note, the site is not currently reachable. at least for me it is not. and notice that he no longer has the site listed in his signature. and probably not a coincidence he was on the forums today - the day of the heist.

It's positive that you deleted the false trust rating. and it's positive that I will not be deleting yours. The one I placed was valid based on your activity, ranting, name calling, derailing of posts in general and the fact that you are ban evading. Your red trust rating was falsely placed, was pure retaliation.

It is not about "popularity" it is about right or wrong. And you were wrong.  I will say thank you though for correcting the error though. Now if you could manage to change the dozens of other negatives, you might have a chance here.

nice raffle! good luck to all those that participate!

congrats mbitr!

this is awesome! sad I missed it but congrats to you guys that got one! very nice of you DaveF!

Ty - I wonder how many of the affected are on here.

Yet I still have red trust from you for it - or is your red trust just fake and based on retaliating for the rightful red trust you got for your inappropriate behavior? Your red trust was valid, mine was and still is not.

haha sorry I have to reply - the hypocrisy. flames me, give me red trust, and calls me all types of names for taking all slots in another raffle for the exact same item but then does the exact same thing. awesome.

I am truly glad you got the penny you were looking for. now maybe you can remove my red trust you gave me for doing the same thing.

well according to minerjones post from years back he lost 3 btc to the site.

and i count hundreds of addresses possibly affected by this and thats just the transactions that i can see because they involve my addresses.

ok.....

I have to digest this --- and I had to leave the shop rather quickly before I killed the motherfucker.

I had downloaded the vanitygen program and installed on pc and we ran a few while i was in the shop that day. some take longer than others - some were fast some took a while.

well my "friend/coworker" agreed that if i supplied him the names, he would run the program, copy/paste the addresses/keys and print them so I can pick them up when I come in (I go in like once a week) he also wanted to use the program so he could 3d print things with vanity addresses and provide keys to customers - he runs a 3d printing business.

sooooo - I walk in and tell him what happened - asking if for any reason he put the pc online, even temporarily - he says no. Then he tells me he has to tell me something...

he said the program was taking too long on longer vanity addresses, so apparently in his genius thought process, he looked for other ways to generate addresses, and he came upon

https://bitcoinvanitygen.com/  

and he stated he has been generating the addresses from there vs the vanitygen program on the laptop. He did not think to tell me as it the "outcome is the same".

I told him he owes me $500 and he better call any/all customers and see how many lost their funds and that he needs to have all his stuff out of the shop by the end of the week.

I have been sitting in my car for about 5 minutes still too pissed off to drive.

I spoke with minerjones who pointed out that years ago he had issues with the same site. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1476782.0 apparently this is a known issue.

so to summarize (I will edit my OP) this has nothing to do with the vanitygen by samr7  - and is strictly tied to https://bitcoinvanitygen.com/  website --- which explains how it involves so many other addresses not just the ones I used.

so, I repeat this is not related to the vanitygen by samr7

the issue here is a complete breakdown of an agreed upon process - and complete disregard for my funds/funds of my children and grandchildren -well, and the funds of his customers.

I did create/use 2 from the program - for my parents. I will be in contact later today to have them check the funds - I did not save their public addresses so I cannot check them myself.


IF ANYONE ELSE HERE USES THAT WEBSITE I SUGGEST YOU TAKE YOUR FUNDS OFF THE ADDRESS IF THEY ARE NOT ALREADY TAKEN AND DO NOT USE IT ANY FURTHER

nice! glad you are happy with the cases! and thank you for sharing the picture!

the pc used to generate the keys was running vanitygen but is a pc that has never been online. The pc is at a shop shared by myself and 2 others.

I am trying to sort out all the details - the creation of the keys was a joint effort with myself and a friend - he also uses the program.

I downloaded the vanitygen from here https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen installed it on the laptop via usb. My friend at the shop would run the program and print them out. I would pick them up when I was next at the shop.

I do not think this is anything done by him or anyone at the shop - as there are literally hundreds of addresses affected so others must have been using the same program - as I look at the inputs and many of them are easily identifiable as vanity addresses.

Also, let me also clarify - this affects nothing I have ever done or sold to anyone --- these are my personal addresses.

I am on my way to the shop now to see if he can add any further details. I literally got up, took the grandson to school, sat down at my pc with a cup of coffee and saw the transactions hit in electrum. by the time I checked all the addresses they were all empty.

I could not peel/sweep the chips fast enough. Every one I peeled to check was already empty.

I will get the hash when I get to the shop and bring it back here in a bit.

offline - private keys were not stored, they were generated, printed and applied to pokerchips, which are still secured and in my possession. I kept no back up of the keys as I have the chips and planned on having them until I handed them to my children and grandchildren.

i dont know what you mean by "public key additive"