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

Yeah, I've been searching for a collision for like 3 years now, not a single one.

I would think that Electrum would be far less efficient than a purpose-made application that simply has a set datastructure designed for fast contains() operations containing all addresses with non-dust amounts (by searching the chain) attached to an iterated key generator would increase your efficiency (still extremely futile and not likely at all to find any collisions). Remember that people actually use the Electrum servers for real transactions they need to send and receive.

Out of curiosity what kind of hash rate have you been getting over that 3 years? and how many addresses have you scanned so far? Also you say youve been looking for non dust addresses, does this mean youve found some with very small amounts?

thanks

I average about 2 addresses a second due to having to check the balance against my Insight server, some times more depending on response time.

Scanned so far, billions, I haven't kept track.

I am looking for any address that has a totalReceived greater than 0.0, I haven't found a single one.

I probably won't ever find any this way due to the amount of possible addresses.

I have, however, found thousands of BTC addresses and keys by turning passwords into BTC addresses, brainwallets.

With the exception of brainwallets, generating a random address and checking the totalReceived or balance the odds are not favorable, at all.

So why do I do it? For fun, duh. And I am a persistent fuck, lol.

I don't have extra money for this why aren't you trying to share it for free?

Time is money my friend.

You can easily learn yourself.

Script to generate random Bitcoin address + Insight server.

It'll take you about 3 days to get the Insight server up to date due to blockchain.

That's if you are familiar with Linux and what ever programming language you choose to generate random addresses.

I considered making a "mining pool" for this but then thought it would be kind of sketchy, haha.

C:\oclvanitygen>oclvanitygen64.exe -o done.txt -D 0:0 -D 0:1 1aarons6
Difficulty: 51529903411245
Compiling kernel, can take minutes...failure.
clBuildProgram: CL_BUILD_PROGRAM_FAILURE
Build log:
C:\Users\Aaron\AppData\Local\Temp\\OCL588T5.cl:180:19: error: variable in consta
nt address space must be initialized
__constant bignum bn_zero;
   ^
C:\Users\Aaron\AppData\Local\Temp\\OCL588T5.cl:180:19: error: constant address s
pace qualified variables are required to be initialized
2 errors generated.

error: Clang front-end compilation failed!
Frontend phase failed compilation.
Error: Compiling CL to IR
Device: Ellesmere
Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (1002)
Driver: 2079.5 (VM)
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Version: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2079.5)
Max compute units: 36
Max workgroup size: 256
Global memory: 0
Max allocation: -50331648
Could not open device '0:0', ignoring
Compiling kernel, can take minutes...failure.
clBuildProgram: CL_BUILD_PROGRAM_FAILURE
Build log:
C:\Users\Aaron\AppData\Local\Temp\\OCL588T11.cl:180:19: error: variable in const
ant address space must be initialized
__constant bignum bn_zero;
   ^
C:\Users\Aaron\AppData\Local\Temp\\OCL588T11.cl:180:19: error: constant address
space qualified variables are required to be initialized
2 errors generated.

error: Clang front-end compilation failed!
Frontend phase failed compilation.
Error: Compiling CL to IR
Device: Ellesmere
Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (1002)
Driver: 2079.5 (VM)
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Version: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2079.5)
Max compute units: 36
Max workgroup size: 256
Global memory: 0
Max allocation: -50331648
Could not open device '0:1', ignoring
Available OpenCL platforms:
0: [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
  0: [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] Ellesmere
  1: [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] Ellesmere
  2: [AuthenticAMD] AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor

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