About generation of a bitcoin address

[squall1066]

Just wondered how so many people have their username as part of their bitcoin address?

Do these people just sit there for days generating them till it comes up or am I missing a trick?

[Revalin]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0P

[squall1066]

Fast responce, Thanks, This answers my question, But think of all those unused addresses, We should have a homeless shelter for them.

[deus-ex-machina]

This looks like a job for the Song of Time.

Or just waiting until someone else generates the address again.

[unclemantis]

Fast responce, Thanks, This answers my question, But think of all those unused addresses, We should have a homeless shelter for them.

I was thinking the same thing, but in order to have a public address you need a private address to go along with it. One could use the addresses already generated for themselves but I am not sure if one would trust selling or giving one away to someone else.

[unclemantis]

BTW, hey! You! The one that created VanityGen, is there a way to log all the tossed out keys?

[deus-ex-machina]

I'll see if there is, even though I'm not the creator. *twists his nonexistent swirly mustache.*

[dree12]

You could log them, then post them on the Internet. Wouldn't be useful though.

[deus-ex-machina]

Possibly as a brute force technique, if you plan on living longer than the sun.

[dree12]

Possibly as a brute force technique, if you plan on living longer than the sun.

It would be interesting to host a several-TB large "address to privkey" database just to show everyone how implausible brute-forcing is.