Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator/miner [v0.22]

[salfter]

Code:

./oclvanitygen -D 0:0 -S -X 48 L

This should find a Litecoin key.  Instead, it runs forever. Is this a known limitation of oclvanitygen?

Use

Code:

./oclvanitygen -D 0:0 -S -X48 -i Light

You cannot have a space after the -X flag.

Code:

./oclvanitygen -D 0:0 -S -X48 L

Didn't make any difference...still grinds away forever without finding any keys.

[piit79]

while running oclvanitygen -d 0 -p 0 -o output.txt 1R
results in
C:\Users\admin\Desktop\vanitygen_catalyst\32>oclvanitygen -d 0 -o output.txt 1R
Difficulty: 1353
Match idx: 0
CPU hash: b3b8b1f62fb59e659835af2b81238fd979ca7e15
GPU hash: 049ae2c66df6d65bb092caa95c759c0599542a13
Found delta: 7338843 Start delta: 1
[3.61 Mkey/s][total 7340032]                                                   M
atch idx: 0
CPU hash: 22c34ee82b97f5b8af8ec9c7d2b9cd3b2e2b0421
GPU hash: 04afbde26e27f40663e0ce86223409a873019ff1
Found delta: 7335852 Start delta: 1
[5.32 Mkey/s][total 14680064]                                                  M
atch idx: 0
CPU hash: 47aa2162ee34797c81c0799254d7b5b266e4d5f1
GPU hash: 049381dea7d7d0638e44a8f0d9f2bc6e10d3ca4c
Found delta: 7326918 Start delta: 1
[6.09 Mkey/s][total 22020096]                                                  M
atch idx: 0
CPU hash: 6635552c18744c27a9f1976801f8439e406abdc3
GPU hash: 04ae7a508a7e8087b54b0947d46186c8f330c875
Found delta: 7338098 Start delta: 1
[6.58 Mkey/s][total 29360128]                                                  ^


And it just goes on forever and ever. but if i do it with the cpu version it work for perfect in no time. i read through form and have not noticed any thing posted about this.

I've come across this too with a full uninstall of newer drivers (removal tool) and downgrading to 12.8.

The only solution I can use to avoid the loop above is to run in safemode with the -S flag.

This does run a lot slower than normal.... however it is still a lot faster than my CPU.

I ran into this issue myself - was mining for a prefix 1piit79 on a 7970 and didn't realize it was a bug until I tried 3 times (and wasted quite a lot of GPU time - 50% tok ~7h )

Funnily enough it worked just fine when I ran it on 5870 (and it was surprisingly just a bit slower than the 7970).

[jaywaka2713]

Code:

./oclvanitygen -D 0:0 -S -X48 L

Didn't make any difference...still grinds away forever without finding any keys.

I think your device flag is wrong. Also, I'm assuming you don't have more than one GPU because of your flag structure. Try:

Code:

./oclvanitygen -d 0 -S -X48 L(prefix)

The capital D might be why it doesn't identify your GPU.

[K1773R]

Code:

./oclvanitygen -D 0:0 -S -X48 L

Didn't make any difference...still grinds away forever without finding any keys.

I think your device flag is wrong. Also, I'm assuming you don't have more than one GPU because of your flag structure. Try:

Code:

./oclvanitygen -d 0 -S -X48 L(prefix)

The capital D might be why it doesn't identify your GPU.

or just dont specify -d 0 at all

[jaywaka2713]

or just dont specify -d 0 at all

I do believe that it is necessary... I get an error if I don't

[K1773R]

or just dont specify -d 0 at all

I do believe that it is necessary... I get an error if I don't

Code:

~/git/bitcoin-vanitygen$ ./oclvanitygen -X 48 LNoobs
Difficulty: 264104224
Pattern: LNoobs                                                                
Address: LNoobsbG3rDntp8rc86F368SoPVHkW9z8P
Privkey: 6uB3J78ffBB7Uz22y8VH42awwRKiUiX7eqqqS1KkcauWa1qyLjg

j/k

[LtPaxIV]

i found a solution for the vanity.thruhere.net site

how do i submit my solved work?

[vlees]

I never got oclvanitygen to work on my GPU (only CPU which gets 750kkeys/s) so I read here that I should downgrade to AMD Catalyst 12.8.
So I did that, but still oclvanitygen does not work on my GPU:

Code:

Compiling kernel, can take minutes...LLVM ERROR: Cannot select: 0x549e808: i8 = ...

Anyone knows how to fix this?

I was getting a similar error from my 7750 when I was running it with 13.1.  It works fine with 12.10, though.  I'd give that version a shot.

Thanks, I'll try. I just painfully downgraded to 12.8 recently because this thread said so...

[salfter]

Code:

./oclvanitygen -D 0:0 -S -X48 L

Didn't make any difference...still grinds away forever without finding any keys.

I think your device flag is wrong. Also, I'm assuming you don't have more than one GPU because of your flag structure. Try:

Code:

./oclvanitygen -d 0 -S -X48 L(prefix)

The capital D might be why it doesn't identify your GPU.

It works fine for finding Bitcoin keys when I invoke it like this:

Code:

./oclvanitygen -D 0:0 -S 1

I have only one GPU, but note that the CPU is available as an OpenCL device as well (-D 0:1).  Not that you'd use oclvanitygen with your CPU as vanitygen is faster, but you could.

[salfter]

or just dont specify -d 0 at all

I do believe that it is necessary... I get an error if I don't

Code:

~/git/bitcoin-vanitygen$ ./oclvanitygen -X 48 LNoobs
Difficulty: 264104224
Pattern: LNoobs                                                                
Address: LNoobsbG3rDntp8rc86F368SoPVHkW9z8P
Privkey: 6uB3J78ffBB7Uz22y8VH42awwRKiUiX7eqqqS1KkcauWa1qyLjg

j/k

...and for me, it just runs forever. Just tried it again with a 7750, then with a 6870 and even a Core 2 Duo E8400. What card and ATI driver version are you using? Leaving out the device-selection option causes it to exit with a list of available devices.

[K1773R]

or just dont specify -d 0 at all

I do believe that it is necessary... I get an error if I don't

Code:

~/git/bitcoin-vanitygen$ ./oclvanitygen -X 48 LNoobs
Difficulty: 264104224
Pattern: LNoobs                                                                
Address: LNoobsbG3rDntp8rc86F368SoPVHkW9z8P
Privkey: 6uB3J78ffBB7Uz22y8VH42awwRKiUiX7eqqqS1KkcauWa1qyLjg

j/k

...and for me, it just runs forever. Just tried it again with a 7750, then with a 6870 and even a Core 2 Duo E8400. What card and ATI driver version are you using? Leaving out the device-selection option causes it to exit with a list of available devices.

no ATI, a GTX580

does it spit out "Difficulty: *" or not?

[salfter]

...and for me, it just runs forever. Just tried it again with a 7750, then with a 6870 and even a Core 2 Duo E8400. What card and ATI driver version are you using? Leaving out the device-selection option causes it to exit with a list of available devices.

no ATI, a GTX580

does it spit out "Difficulty: *" or not?

It does.

I think I've figured out what's happening: oclvanitygen will only find keys wirh vanity addresses for non-Bitcoin address types.  These commands work:

Code:

./oclvanitygen -D 0:0 -S 1
./oclvanitygen -D 0:0 -S -X 48 Lfoo

This doesn't:

Code:

./oclvanitygen -D 0:0 -S -X 48 L

The degenerate case where you just want an address appears to only work for Bitcoin.

[K1773R]

...and for me, it just runs forever. Just tried it again with a 7750, then with a 6870 and even a Core 2 Duo E8400. What card and ATI driver version are you using? Leaving out the device-selection option causes it to exit with a list of available devices.

no ATI, a GTX580

does it spit out "Difficulty: *" or not?

It does.

I think I've figured out what's happening: oclvanitygen will only find keys wirh vanity addresses for non-Bitcoin address types.  These commands work:

Code:

./oclvanitygen -D 0:0 -S 1
./oclvanitygen -D 0:0 -S -X 48 Lfoo

This doesn't:

Code:

./oclvanitygen -D 0:0 -S -X 48 L

The degenerate case where you just want an address appears to only work for Bitcoin.

try with an older ATI SDK?

[scintill]

The degenerate case where you just want an address appears to only work for Bitcoin.

Not just the degenerate case, but certain prefixes.  I can't generate Li (hashes a long time when it should easily find it), but I can do LiG easily.  For some reason Lig says the prefix is not possible, but it should be, right? Edit: deepceleron explained this.

The problem exists in revision 75246451d38140261f5318c258e53e4db7875607 when the -X flag was added to oclvanitygen, so maybe it was never really working.

[deepceleron]

The degenerate case where you just want an address appears to only work for Bitcoin.

but certain prefixes.  I can't generate Li (hashes a long time when it should easily find it), but I can do LiG easily.  For some reason Lig says the prefix is not possible, but it should be, right?

See:

(lightcoin) Valid addresses are in the range: LKDxGDJ-LiZZFKc7

Base58 ALPHABET = "123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz"

[pvtbrutus]

Just posting this for anyone who is interested.

I get 26 Mkey/s with a GTX 680. Was quite easy to get running, only launched CMD and "oclvanitygen.exe 1Brutus".

Found my "1Brutus" address in 6min .

[scintill]

See:

(lightcoin) Valid addresses are in the range: LKDxGDJ-LiZZFKc7

Base58 ALPHABET = "123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz"

Aha, you're right, thanks.  If anyone's curious, I verified these on brainwallet.org with hex strings 30000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 and 30ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff which are the lower and upper bounds of a litecoin pubkeyhash (1 network byte = 0x30, 20 bytes of hash, 4 bytes of checksum).

[fishy]

When I use vanitygen it says "error loading calc_address.cl"
Does anyone know the solution to this problem?

[K1773R]

When I use vanitygen it says "error loading calc_address.cl"
Does anyone know the solution to this problem?

cd first to the directory where vanitiygen is

[fishy]

When I use vanitygen it says "error loading calc_address.cl"
Does anyone know the solution to this problem?

cd first to the directory where vanitiygen is

cd? Sorry, I'm a noob...