(Beta) Vanity address generation - own a "1YourName" BTC address

[BitTarget]

We are offering cheap custom vanity addresses.

Bitcoin addresses are addresses that start with a readable part, e.g. Satoshi Dice has addresses such as 1dice1Qf4Br5EYjj9rnHWqgMVYnQWehYG. These addresses are generated using brute-force generation of addresses.

We can offer the following prices for custom vanity addresses:

1-4 characters (hard) = 0.01 BTC
5 characters (hard) = 0.05 BTC
7 characters (hard) = 0.17 BTC
8 characters (hard) = 10 BTC

The numbers above include the leading 1 (e.g. "1dice" is 5 characters). If the first character after the initial 1 is a number or uppercase letters A through P, you have an "easy" address and can deduct one character from the table above. All other characters are "hard".. A few other exceptions apply but we'll let you know if that is the case.

In order to generate your address, you have to provide a "step 1 public key" as generated by the vanity wallet feature of https://www.bitaddress.org/ or the keygen feature of vanitygen. You should back up and keep your step 1 private key safe. Once we're done mining your address we'll send you our pool key, which can be combined with your private key to create a wallet. This procedure ensures that we won't be able to control your wallet.

For 8 character vanity names, we may be able to reduce your costs if you provide a few alternative versions of your desired address: e.g. with slight differences in capitalization.

Please contact us here, in a PM or at support@bittarget.com if you have any doubts or if you would like to try the service. Addresses up to 7 characters should take one or two days to generate. Please verify our availability for 8-character names.

Do notice that this is an experimental service at this point.

[smoothie]

Hasn't there already been some addresses created with 10+ vanity characters using GPUs?

I'm not trying to come off the wrong way.

How long would it generally take to generate 8 characters?

What are you using to generate it? CPUs? GPUs?

[BitTarget]

Great questions actually, it is only a guess that the above prices are compatible with the current state of the art. In my research I couldn't find anyone offering a lower price, but things move fast and I could be wrong.

As far as I know you can reasonably create keys of more than 10 characters if you are extremely non-picky about them, e.g. if you don't expect a particular capitalization. I am offering exact, case-sensitive generation as a baseline.

My Macbook should generate a case-sensitive 8-character "hard" address (second character outside [0-9A-P]) or 9-character "easy" address in up to 4 years (depends on luck). A  GPU should cut that to about 140 days.

[smracer]

Are these addresses case-sensitive?

I am searching for addresses at 125Mkeys per second right now (5 X 5870) and I have the PSU's/Motherboards/GPU's sitting right here to get to 2 Billion Keys/sec (80 X 5870) (It was my GPU BTC farm - now turned off)

If you can design the code so people can request the addresses online I can provide the GPU power.

[BitTarget]

Sent you a PM smracer.

[Dare]

http://vanitypool.appspot.com does pretty much exactly this, though the fees/payouts vary.

However, it currently doesn't support case-agnostic or regex requests, which makes it hard to get a "good enough" gen.
For instance, I recently got "1WoLfRUGDx" when searching for "1WoLf" on a computer that can't find more than 4-5 chars in a reasonable time, which is about the luckiest you can get on the pool (though that one was a personal address for me).

EDIT: Typo in the link.

[BitTarget]

Yes, I actually like the pool concept a lot. We'll definitely look into accepting work from there every time the bounty makes sense.

[gadman2]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=270180.0 Split key and free up to Difficulty: 1610309481601

[LtPaxIV]

http://vanitypool.appsopt.com does pretty much exactly this, though the fees/payouts vary.

However, it currently doesn't support case-agnostic or regex requests, which makes it hard to get a "good enough" gen.
For instance, I recently got "1WoLfRUGDx" when searching for "1WoLf" on a computer that can't find more than 4-5 chars in a reasonable time, which is about the luckiest you can get on the pool (though that one was a personal address for me).

huh whats that for an wierd address? or did u just have a typo?

it redirects multiple times over wierd sites and then put u on different sites each time.

[Dare]

http://vanitypool.appsopt.com does pretty much exactly this, though the fees/payouts vary.

However, it currently doesn't support case-agnostic or regex requests, which makes it hard to get a "good enough" gen.
For instance, I recently got "1WoLfRUGDx" when searching for "1WoLf" on a computer that can't find more than 4-5 chars in a reasonable time, which is about the luckiest you can get on the pool (though that one was a personal address for me).

huh whats that for an wierd address? or did u just have a typo?

it redirects multiple times over wierd sites and then put u on different sites each time.

Sorry, that was a typo - it's supposed to be https://vanitypool.appspot.com/. It's ThePiachu's vanity address mining pool, the bitcointalk thread is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=84569.0.