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February 28, 2013, 09:06:11 PM
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How does one generate vanity addresses on bitcoin and alts?
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February 28, 2013, 09:08:27 PM
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How does one generate vanity addresses on bitcoin and alts?
You can use vanitygen (link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0). If you don't want to do it yourself, you can get others to generate the keys for you (just be aware that some people are scammers). I would be happy to make you one, PM me if you are interested.
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February 28, 2013, 09:30:31 PM
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How does one generate vanity addresses on bitcoin and alts?
You can use vanitygen (link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0). If you don't want to do it yourself, you can get others to generate the keys for you (just be aware that some people are scammers). I would be happy to make you one, PM me if you are interested.

Thanks for the link!
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February 28, 2013, 09:33:23 PM
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And of course I have lots of them for sale with very nicely reserved firstbits.

But yeah, vanity gen is the shit. https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen

If you have a good graphics card you can generate them even faster on that.

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February 28, 2013, 09:51:25 PM
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Does generating an address reserve that address on the network then? Or are you just mathematically validating said address?

Once you have a validated unused address, How does one then get it into your wallet ?
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February 28, 2013, 10:03:51 PM
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thanks, look at mine! xD
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February 28, 2013, 10:08:23 PM
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Does generating an address reserve that address on the network then? Or are you just mathematically validating said address?

Once you have a validated unused address, How does one then get it into your wallet ?
It doesn't reserve it in the networks (at least I'm NEARLY sure it doesn't) until you add it to your wallet. What wallet are you using to store your addresses? If you are using a web-based wallet, it varies, but for Bitcoin-QT (the desktop client), go here for instructions: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_import_private_keys
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February 28, 2013, 10:28:07 PM
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You never reserve an address  Wink

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February 28, 2013, 10:36:03 PM
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Or put up a bid at the pool - http://vanitypool.appspot.com/
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February 28, 2013, 10:58:24 PM
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Does generating an address reserve that address on the network then? Or are you just mathematically validating said address?

Once you have a validated unused address, How does one then get it into your wallet ?
It doesn't reserve it in the networks (at least I'm NEARLY sure it doesn't) until you add it to your wallet. What wallet are you using to store your addresses? If you are using a web-based wallet, it varies, but for Bitcoin-QT (the desktop client), go here for instructions: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_import_private_keys

Thanks for the reply. I'm thinking about writing a program to generate valid addresses. Just for educational purposes, I dont think i would get into the keys part of it.
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March 01, 2013, 02:41:30 PM
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Does generating an address reserve that address on the network then? Or are you just mathematically validating said address?

Once you have a validated unused address, How does one then get it into your wallet ?
It doesn't reserve it in the networks (at least I'm NEARLY sure it doesn't) until you add it to your wallet. What wallet are you using to store your addresses? If you are using a web-based wallet, it varies, but for Bitcoin-QT (the desktop client), go here for instructions: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_import_private_keys

You can't use it until you import it into your wallet.

However, you don't "reserve it" until you have made a transaction to it in the block chain, then the potential firstbits would be reserved. Firstbits are not an official Bitcoin "thing" but places like blockchain.info and firstbits you can look up an address with the first part of the vanity if your address is the first one used in the blockchain.

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March 01, 2013, 06:32:38 PM
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Wasn't aware of vanity addresses, thanks for the link
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March 01, 2013, 07:29:02 PM
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Vanity address is kinda cool, and you could show your richness if you got a long one lol
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March 01, 2013, 07:31:50 PM
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Vanity address is kinda cool, and you could show your richness if you got a long one lol

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=90982.0

I own the current longest prefix of numbers only and lower case only.

1odfsrirfbxtwjoviseqdnuixwvhsnPbJ       longest lowercase prefix
19279281759997344NJ2KMcdRZNVT5rHhq      longest digit-only prefix


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