How to get fancy addresses?

[Muhammed Zakir]

Hello!

I found many address starting with 1Ponzi.............. , 1Piggy................... , 1Nasty.................... etc. . .
So I just want to know how to get addresses like these.

Kindly,
        Muhammed Zakhir

[moreia]

These are called Vanity addresses
You can create your own vanity address with a tool created by Samr7 here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0


Also, for future reference, this isn't an off-topic post, you could have posted in beginners and help or meta and would have gotten a quick (maybe more detailed) response

[Lauda]

Generating such an address takes a lot of time though (depending on how many characters you want).

[CIYAM]

Understand that if you use vanitgen to create your *fancy* address you will need to "import the private key".

As an example:

Code:

> vanitygen 1b
Difficulty: 1353
Pattern: 1b
Address: 1bq2zANuJp6AAo6NNeZkiLZ34vhAzsJ7Z
Privkey: 5JacUd1EmswqgxAVbQJLhiDMckhWqL6XVm7WycHDAPWmz9gfU1f

The Privkey value (for the address that you generate) would need to be imported into your wallet in order for you to *own* that address.

Also note that if the "fancy" prefix you want is large then it can take *a very long time* for vanitygen to find a match (so unless you have a very powerful computer I wouldn't advise trying to exact match much more that 5-6 characters).

My 1ciyam vanity address took 4 days to generate (on a fairly old laptop).

[Muhammed Zakir]

Thanks for the replies.
Kindly,
        Muhammed Zakhir

[moreia]

Generating such an address takes a lot of time though (depending on how many characters you want).

Standard stock GPU / CPU can do 500-1000 keys/s, this is enough to generate a 5char vanity within 30 minutes...6 characters could take 5 - 20 hours, 7 expect days

[Este Nuno]

What is the longest vanity address ever created in bitcoin thus far?

is it 8 characters? If 7 can take days...

[Taras]

What is the longest vanity address ever created in bitcoin thus far?

is it 8 characters? If 7 can take days...

Probably in the realm of ten to twelve, case-insensitive and not specifically at the beginning of the address.

[moreia]

What is the longest vanity address ever created in bitcoin thus far?

is it 8 characters? If 7 can take days...

Probably in the realm of ten to twelve, case-insensitive and not specifically at the beginning of the address.

How would you make certain characters in the vanity ?
So like
1ahdjeMshdjsOajdjdaRajdjsEdhsIA

The characters being M, O, R, E, I and A

Is that what you're talking about?

[DrG]

What is the longest vanity address ever created in bitcoin thus far?

is it 8 characters? If 7 can take days...

Probably in the realm of ten to twelve, case-insensitive and not specifically at the beginning of the address.

How would you make certain characters in the vanity ?
So like
1ahdjeMshdjsOajdjdaRajdjsEdhsIA

The characters being M, O, R, E, I and A

Is that what you're talking about?

No he means like

1s9kMoreIAls7dn3...
or 1MOreIa9akdjwefu7676fs...

If you want 1MOREIA.... or 1Moreia... it will take a lot more crunching.  Each letter is exponentially more work.  Asking to be case sensitive is like asking for another letter.

[geforcelover]

hi zakhir bro.. you can get a random fancy address by using vanitygen.. its easy to use its come with guide..

[DrG]

hi zakhir bro.. you can get a random fancy address by using vanitygen.. its easy to use its come with guide..

It is easy to use but requires some hashing power.

It would easier to put up a bounty and list acceptable optionals and bounty reward.  Let other people do the work and pay them in crypto!

[geforcelover]

hi zakhir bro.. you can get a random fancy address by using vanitygen.. its easy to use its come with guide..

It is easy to use but requires some hashing power.

It would easier to put up a bounty and list acceptable optionals and bounty reward.  Let other people do the work and pay them in crypto!

Thnkx DRG for clearing other things for him..

[bluefirecorp]

hi zakhir bro.. you can get a random fancy address by using vanitygen.. its easy to use its come with guide..

This has already been posted. I mean, they even linked to guides and such. No reason for you to post repetitive information.

OP, you should lock this thread to prevent any more spam posting:


Click on any of your posts in this thread.

Click on "Addition Options" right under the entry text.

Click the box next to "Lock this topic".

Click "Save"

Edit: I just found a new way as well.

You can also scroll to the very bottom of the page and click "lock topic" (it should be a link right next to move this topic).

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