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

[TheRealSteve]

Yep, that works too.  Still wouldn't want to feed it a whole dictionary file, but that should still work.  Regex just adds the possibility of allowing matches somewhere other than the start - which on one hand means more valid addresses, but on the other means a slower search

[tspacepilot]

Yep, that works too.  Still wouldn't want to feed it a whole dictionary file, but that should still work.  Regex just adds the possibility of allowing matches somewhere other than the start - which on one hand means more valid addresses, but on the other means a slower search

Should also allow kleene star (or kleene +), and it looks like it also does the extentions of {2,5}... etc.  So if you wanted at least two words from your wordlist file you'd need:

1(w1|w2|w3...){2}

But I think you can't get that with just the flat wordlist.

[MARCELLO]

Make the program as SAMInside, only an attack on the private key?

[TheRealSteve]

Make the program as SAMInside, only an attack on the private key?

Vanitygen is a completely different project.  There are existing projects for trying to attack a private key, but these are mostly dictionary-based (for keys generated from mnemonics).  Brute-forcing a private key is considered unfeasible.  There's plenty of pre-existing threads on this, have your pick
https://www.google.com/webhp#q=site%3Abitcointalk.org%20crack%20private

[Bitcoin_BOy$]

Hello , I think we need an option to create green addresses for bitcoin and multisigs ones
will make this generator better .

Bitcoin Boy .

[tspacepilot]

Hello , I think we need an option to create green addresses for bitcoin and multisigs ones
will make this generator better .

Bitcoin Boy .

What are "green" addresses?  Can you provide a link or something?  I don't know what that means.

[Muhammed Zakir]

Hello , I think we need an option to create green addresses for bitcoin and multisigs ones
will make this generator better .

Bitcoin Boy .

What are "green" addresses?  Can you provide a link or something?  I don't know what that means.

Don't know how this can be green address and vanitygen can go along. I don't like green address.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=32818.0
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Green_address
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1730/what-are-green-addresses
http://www.coindesk.com/green-address-the-solution-to-slow-bitcoin-transactions/

Pic from CoinDesk.

[jacktheking]

I got a VPS from someone at a very cheap price. I wonder how can I use the VPS with Vanitygen. Any guide? Searched Google but dont seem to find any answer.

[Muhammed Zakir]

I got a VPS from someone at a very cheap price. I wonder how can I use the VPS with Vanitygen. Any guide? Searched Google but dont seem to find any answer.

You can install vanitygen and generate vanity addresses like you do in a normal PC.

[jacktheking]

I got a VPS from someone at a very cheap price. I wonder how can I use the VPS with Vanitygen. Any guide? Searched Google but dont seem to find any answer.

You can install vanitygen and generate vanity addresses like you do in a normal PC.

It is my first time using a VPS. I'm currently hosting with Nexhost. How do I install Vanitygen from the control panel? Is there a step by step guide?

[Muhammed Zakir]

I got a VPS from someone at a very cheap price. I wonder how can I use the VPS with Vanitygen. Any guide? Searched Google but dont seem to find any answer.

You can install vanitygen and generate vanity addresses like you do in a normal PC.

It is my first time using a VPS. I'm currently hosting with Nexhost. How do I install Vanitygen from the control panel? Is there a step by step guide?

You can use Putty. http://www.putty.org/

There are many tutorials for using Putty.

[hexafraction]

I got a VPS from someone at a very cheap price. I wonder how can I use the VPS with Vanitygen. Any guide? Searched Google but dont seem to find any answer.

You can install vanitygen and generate vanity addresses like you do in a normal PC.

It is my first time using a VPS. I'm currently hosting with Nexhost. How do I install Vanitygen from the control panel? Is there a step by step guide?

You can use Putty. http://www.putty.org/

There are many tutorials for using Putty.

PuTTY is a tool for accessing the server. You will also need to know how to download and unpack the package (wget and tar), and install or compile-and-install (package manager for dependencies, autogen/configure/make/make install for compiling+installation).

[Muhammed Zakir]

I got a VPS from someone at a very cheap price. I wonder how can I use the VPS with Vanitygen. Any guide? Searched Google but dont seem to find any answer.

You can install vanitygen and generate vanity addresses like you do in a normal PC.

It is my first time using a VPS. I'm currently hosting with Nexhost. How do I install Vanitygen from the control panel? Is there a step by step guide?

You can use Putty. http://www.putty.org/

There are many tutorials for using Putty.

PuTTY is a tool for accessing the server. You will also need to know how to download and unpack the package (wget and tar), and install or compile-and-install (package manager for dependencies, autogen/configure/make/make install for compiling+installation).

Yes. He can also use compiled binaries if he can't compile.

[tspacepilot]

I got a VPS from someone at a very cheap price. I wonder how can I use the VPS with Vanitygen. Any guide? Searched Google but dont seem to find any answer.

You can install vanitygen and generate vanity addresses like you do in a normal PC.

It is my first time using a VPS. I'm currently hosting with Nexhost. How do I install Vanitygen from the control panel? Is there a step by step guide?

You can use Putty. http://www.putty.org/

There are many tutorials for using Putty.

PuTTY is a tool for accessing the server. You will also need to know how to download and unpack the package (wget and tar), and install or compile-and-install (package manager for dependencies, autogen/configure/make/make install for compiling+installation).

Yes. He can also use compiled binaries if he can't compile.

Given the question (bolded in the quote), I think the suggestion to use PuTTY is a little misleading.  PuTTY is an SSH client for Windoze.  But the question was about installing vanitygen from the control panel.  So, I'm pretty sure what MZ means here is that "no you can't use the 'control panel', you'll need to get a shell on the server using an ssh client (such as PuTTY)."  Then, in that context, you can see that hexfraction is pointing out that beyond just getting a shell on the server, you'll need to actually know some commands on the server.  At least wget/curl and tar, so that you can get the binaries (even if you don't want to compile).

BTW, PuTTY is quite an awesome program.  I only use GNU/Linux and I'm always super-frustrated when I sit down at a library or somewhere that has windows and I can't do anything or install anything.  PuTTY is wonderful because you don't need to "install" it for it to work.  I just download it and click it and it runs and I don't have to be an "administrator" or whatever it's called and then I can log into a real computer and starting getting stuff done!

[koelen3]

For simply using Vanity with CMD , it sure shows me quite high time for finding 1koelen...... BTC address.
I don't think i have a chance to stumble on it

[TheRealSteve]

For simply using Vanity with CMD , it sure shows me quite high time for finding 1koelen...... BTC address.
I don't think i have a chance to stumble on it

You don't - but then again, it shouldn't have shown you any time at all - the lowercase letter L is not allowed at all.

If you meant "1koe1en", then it really shouldn't be too bad, especially with oclvanitygen, and especially with a decent GPU - certainly less than a day on average.

[AgoraLive]

I have been working with this s*** for at day now. I can get vanitygen.exe working no problem, but oclvanitygen.exe will not create a single/simple adress? What is the command line for creating a privkey for 1goat

I have tried    oclvanitygen.exe -d 0 -i 1goat

What is not working here? oclvanityget has identitied my AMD GPU, but no result  

UPDATE:  It has to be a driver issue, because I can for the oclvanitygen to use the CPU and this works.... But why can the 7800 series GPU mine and not be used for vanitygen?

[koelen3]

For simply using Vanity with CMD , it sure shows me quite high time for finding 1koelen...... BTC address.
I don't think i have a chance to stumble on it

You don't - but then again, it shouldn't have shown you any time at all - the lowercase letter L is not allowed at all.

If you meant "1koe1en", then it really shouldn't be too bad, especially with oclvanitygen, and especially with a decent GPU - certainly less than a day on average.

Really? It showed me around a year , i ran it for like 3 hours and then gave up since it really took all the juice of my System.
I will try 1koe1en
Thanks

[TheRealSteve]

Really?

Yes, really   No lowercase 'L', no uppercase 'o', no uppercase 'i' and no '0' (number zero).

If you used -i (case insensitive) it would have looked for 1koeLen (and 1KoeLen and 1KOeLen and 1KOELen, etc. etc.) - but the number it should have returned should have been very low then (as there's many more possible hits).  If you used it with the -r (regex), then I think it accepts all those forbidden characters, but it wouldn't give an estimate of when it would be found (if I recall that correct).

[TheRealSteve]

It has to be a driver issue, because I can for the oclvanitygen to use the CPU and this works.... But why can the 7800 series GPU mine and not be used for vanitygen?

Typically because the opencl stream isn't compatible with the hardware.  That would need somebody reasonably familiar with OpenCL - and preferably with access to the hardware - to fix.

That said - does it return an error, does it return GPU/CPU mismatches, or does it just sit there calculating forever not finding anything (while using the CPU - either via oclvanitygen or regular - does return results)?