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

[nc50lc]

I would like to know if with Vanitygen it is also possible to generate thousands of addresses with keys and output them in a file (regardless of the pattern of the address) and at the same time generate addresses of different altcoins like Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin etc...?

Use VanitySeach for faster speed and for possible GPU support (depending on your GPU) instead.
With that tool, use -o arg to specify an "output.txt" file where the private keys will be saved.

Bitcointalk Thread link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112311.0

[unamic]

Yes. But what are you trying to do? Usually those requests mean someone's trying to brute-force existing addresses, which won't work.

I don't want to search for specific patterns like 1Love, but create many addresses and pick out the best patterns that I might like. Bitcoin would also be enough for me, it is important to me that it creates 12 or 24 seeds and works with Cuda.

This board isn't the right place for discussing altcoins.

It's not about Altcoins, I'm looking for a VanityGen version that, in addition to Bitcoin, also generates other addresses (also for Altcoins) at the same time, so at best it is also capable of creating a 256bit secure 24 seed.

Use VanitySeach for faster speed and for possible GPU support (depending on your GPU) instead.
With that tool, use -o arg to specify an "output.txt" file where the private keys will be saved.

Bitcointalk Thread link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112311.0

Does VanitySearch also support 12 or 24 seeds? If necessary, it also works without would only be nice because of the compatibility with other wallets. Or is there possibly a possibility to convert a private key afterwards to a seed? I think I read something that you convert it into bites and then the bites into words.

[nc50lc]

Use VanitySeach for faster speed and for possible GPU support (depending on your GPU) instead.

Does VanitySearch also support 12 or 24 seeds? If necessary, it also works without would only be nice because of the compatibility with other wallets.

No, it doesn't; just like Vanitygen.

Or is there possibly a possibility to convert a private key afterwards to a seed? I think I read something that you convert it into bites and then the bites into words.

You read it right but it's not the way you think it is.
If you're aiming to use the private key of a vanity address and convert it into a seed phrase in hope to restore the same vanity address, it wont work.

That's because the addresses derived from a seed phrase aren't based from the initial entropy but from the mnemonic itself (the 24 words) which is used to derive a "seed".
Not to mention that the vanity address is derived from its private key in a specific way, not the same way as deriving private key and addresses from a seed.

[Synchronice]

Yes. But what are you trying to do? Usually those requests mean someone's trying to brute-force existing addresses, which won't work.

I don't want to search for specific patterns like 1Love, but create many addresses and pick out the best patterns that I might like. Bitcoin would also be enough for me, it is important to me that it creates 12 or 24 seeds and works with Cuda.

You can create tons of addresses via VanitySearch or VanityGen, so many in some seconds that I think you'll get exhausted to check each of them. Btw it won't randomly generate beautiful address though.

Does VanitySearch also support 12 or 24 seeds? If necessary, it also works without would only be nice because of the compatibility with other wallets. Or is there possibly a possibility to convert a private key afterwards to a seed? I think I read something that you convert it into bites and then the bites into words.

I think you'll find this thread and this particular post very interesting: Bitcoin Seed Phrases and Vanity Adresses
Someone had a slightly different question on stackexchange, it will be interesting for you too: Private key to mnemonic words, is it safe?

[LoyceV]

Yes. But what are you trying to do? Usually those requests mean someone's trying to brute-force existing addresses, which won't work.

I don't want to search for specific patterns like 1Love, but create many addresses and pick out the best patterns that I might like.

That's going to be a lot of work. You can't humanly read millions of addresses, and vanitygen creates that in seconds.
In the past, I've brute-forced mini-private-keys, and ended up with about a gigabyte of data. I could search for keywords, but even millions of addresses are barely enough to find something nice.
Suggestion: create a list of possible keywords, and use that as input for vanitygen. That way, it can search for thousands of different prefixes at once, and you may hit something good.

Does VanitySearch also support 12 or 24 seeds?

No.

is there possibly a possibility to convert a private key afterwards to a seed?

No.

I think I read something that you convert it into bites and then the bites into words.

Well, yes. But that will just be another way to write down your private key, it won't give you a seed phrase that a standard wallet can use to derive your vanity address.

[Penis]

Does anyone know why the binaries have disappeared from the GitHub page? I use vanitygen to generate private keys on an offline computer running Windows. Fortunately I was able to paste OP's link into the Internet Wayback Machine and grab it from there but most people probably wouldn't think to do that and lack the skills/time/effort to compile it from the source.

[DaveF]

Someone probably complained. Going back months the github account shows no activity so samr7 did not remove them.
VanitySearch: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112311.0 is better if you are using a supported card and doing it locally.

Funny thing is a couple of us were just discussing vanity addresses: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5151346.0

Anyone who is going to go that deep into looking for a vanity address can probably find something to generate one.

-Dave

[Eclipse33]

Hello,

Does anyone have a copy of the vanitygen.zip file they can share. The original github download has been removed.

I am looking for: https://github.com/downloads/samr7/vanitygen/vanitygen-0.22-win.zip

What the page used to look like:



This page appears to be no-more.

I would like to run this software on windows.

-Eclipse

[DaveF]

@Eclipse33
https://web.archive.org/web/20221015051600/https://github.com/downloads/samr7/vanitygen/vanitygen-0.22-win.zip

Keep in mind it may not run on modern graphics cards.

Vanitysearch is a better option IMO: https://github.com/JeanLucPons/VanitySearch or https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112311.0

-Dave

[willi9974]

Yes VanitySearch is the better one…

[tor fomo]

Is it possible to make an vanity tron address? or is soft it a scam?
Who have vanitysearch for tron?)

[mcdouglasx]

Is it possible to make an vanity tron address? or is soft it a scam?
Who have vanitysearch for tron?)

Not with this one, you must modify it or create a new code

 TRoNAddrR9SC5QLoLNZRjW9NxYxW2dVJrP

Don't use websites or codes that can't be verified, these are usually scams.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Is it possible to make an vanity tron address? or is soft it a scam?
Who have vanitysearch for tron?)

Ask in the altcoin areas.
This area is for Bitcoin only - not altcoins like tron and the other crapcoins.

[300]

Has anyone successfully compiled this in 2024? Seems to use a lot of libraries that are now deprecated. Wonder if it might be better to compile using an older version of Ubuntu in a VM.

Is it possible to make an vanity tron address? or is soft it a scam?
Who have vanitysearch for tron?)

Try -X 65. Not 100% sure if it works because the way private keys are derived might differ from Bitcoin though.

[LoyceV]

Has anyone successfully compiled this in 2024? Seems to use a lot of libraries that are now deprecated. Wonder if it might be better to compile using an older version of Ubuntu in a VM.

I noticed the same, and it was already a lot of work to get oclvanitygen working when I first installed it 8 years ago. An older OS in a VM is worth testing, but it will be slower than a real OS.