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

[Muhammed Zakir]

How can I activate? How can I submit in vanity pool about the results manually?

You can submit the solved work either on the work page

work page: https://vanitypool.appspot.com/availableWork

click on vanity you mined, example: 1Smoothie

Two fields to fill in: private key of solution, and your BTC address.

If that's not what you were asking about, please try again

Thanks for that!

My 1 question is solved but the other one isn't. See the quote below:

1 question, guys 

If I've generated a vanity address without internet connection and closing terminal after finishing, there's any log or something like that with what I've generated?
(Hope that not )

Cheers!

There isn't,  unless you activate the option to write the result to a file

How can I activate that option? What is the command?

Kindly,
        MZ

[franckuestein]

Anyone can help me running the Vanitygen pool on Mac OS X Mavericks?

Yesterday I've compiled perfectly the vanitygen but I don't know how to work on the pool :s
Cheers!

[TheRealSteve]

[...]activate the option to write the result to a file

How can I activate that option? What is the command?

If you run just vanitygen.exe / oclvanitygen.exe , you should get a list of command line options - among which:

Code:

-o <file>     Write pattern matches to <file>

[Muhammed Zakir]

[...]activate the option to write the result to a file

How can I activate that option? What is the command?

If you run just vanitygen.exe / oclvanitygen.exe , you should get a list of command line options - among which:

Code:

-o <file>     Write pattern matches to <file>

Thanks! But I can't use oclvanitygen.exe as it showing, no such file or directory : 'calc_addrss.cl' . Can you help me in that too?

Kindly,
       MZ

[TheRealSteve]

I can't use oclvanitygen.exe as it showing, no such file or directory : 'calc_addrss.cl' . Can you help me in that too?

Start reading from this post, and double-check all the suggestions:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.msg7710086#msg7710086

[DonQuijote]

I spend several hours getting oclvanitygen working with AMD Radeon 7xxx on 64-bit Linux - Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 14.04. In the end only the following is needed:

• Ubuntu drivers
• vanitygen patch
• 1 userspace library file from AMD APP SDK v2.7

I created a minimal instruction text file. Maybe this will save someone some hours of searching the internet.

https://nastyfans.org/download/oclvanitygen.txt

Thanks!
I want try it this week 

[KriszDev]

How can I make many vanity keys at once with the same patter? Like I want 200 addresses start with 1Abc .

[MICRO]

How can I make many vanity keys at once with the same patter? Like I want 200 addresses start with 1Abc .

Yes ofc u can . U can make like "infinite" amount of same starting addyes

[KriszDev]

How can I make many vanity keys at once with the same patter? Like I want 200 addresses start with 1Abc .

Yes ofc u can . U can make like "infinite" amount of same starting addyes

I mean without need to restart the program. I have to store them in a file or in SQL.

[MICRO]

How can I make many vanity keys at once with the same patter? Like I want 200 addresses start with 1Abc .

Yes ofc u can . U can make like "infinite" amount of same starting addyes

I mean without need to restart the program. I have to store them in a file or in SQL.

Ah that i don't think its possible u will need to hit up arrow to get same settings and start it again . And copy last key u got

[Kangaderoo]

How can I make many vanity keys at once with the same patter? Like I want 200 addresses start with 1Abc .

Yes ofc u can . U can make like "infinite" amount of same starting addyes

I mean without need to restart the program. I have to store them in a file or in SQL.

Ah that i don't think its possible u will need to hit up arrow to get same settings and start it again . And copy last key u got

use the -k for continues and the -o <filename> for storage
run vanitygen without any flags and it will display all the options.

Code:

Options:
-v            Verbose output
-q            Quiet output
-n            Simulate
-r            Use regular expression match instead of prefix
              (Feasibility of expression is not checked)
-i            Case-insensitive prefix search
-k            Keep pattern and continue search after finding a match
-1            Stop after first match
-L            Generate litecoin address
-N            Generate namecoin address
-T            Generate bitcoin testnet address
-X <version>  Generate address with the given version
-F <format>   Generate address with the given format (pubkey, compressed, script)
-P <pubkey>   Specify base public key for piecewise key generation
-e            Encrypt private keys, prompt for password
-E <password> Encrypt private keys with <password> (UNSAFE)
-t <threads>  Set number of worker threads (Default: number of CPUs)
-f <file>     File containing list of patterns, one per line
              (Use "-" as the file name for stdin)
-o <file>     Write pattern matches to <file>
-s <file>     Seed random number generator from <file>

[Trillium]

How can I make many vanity keys at once with the same patter? Like I want 200 addresses start with 1Abc .

Yes ofc u can . U can make like "infinite" amount of same starting addyes

I mean without need to restart the program. I have to store them in a file or in SQL.

Ah that i don't think its possible u will need to hit up arrow to get same settings and start it again . And copy last key u got

use the -k for continues and the -o <filename> for storage
run vanitygen without any flags and it will display all the options.

Yes it will continue searching and write all the results to the file. If you want 200+ then keep the pattern real short.

[aerobatic]

Do any Mac OSX versions of vanitygen exist that are downloadable as binaries so we can execute them without having to compile from source?  (ideally, versions without embedded virii ;-)

if not, can someone who has compiled the mac version, make it available on dropbox or somewhere?

thanks

-- Jez

[organofcorti]

Do any Mac OSX versions of vanitygen exist that are downloadable as binaries so we can execute them without having to compile from source?  (ideally, versions without embedded virii ;-)

if not, can someone who has compiled the mac version, make it available on dropbox or somewhere?

thanks

-- Jez

I never got it working on mac after endless attempts, never found a binary either. I ended up installing linux and using that instead. You might be able to use a virtual machine if you don't want to dual boot.

[MechaLeary]

Do any Mac OSX versions of vanitygen exist that are downloadable as binaries so we can execute them without having to compile from source?  (ideally, versions without embedded virii ;-)

if not, can someone who has compiled the mac version, make it available on dropbox or somewhere?

thanks

-- Jez

Vanitygen can be installed quite easily via Homebrew if you install this brew repository

[haploid23]

If I have an old scrypt miner with a r9 290 GPU, would that be usable to generate my address? If so, would this be magnitudes faster than using a intel quadcore with hyperthread?

Sorry for the basic question, just started dabbing into vanity addresses.

[Trillium]

If I have an old scrypt miner with a r9 290 GPU, would that be usable to generate my address? If so, would this be magnitudes faster than using a intel quadcore with hyperthread?

Sorry for the basic question, just started dabbing into vanity addresses.

Yes orders of magnitude faster, but as has come up many times here before, you'll probably need to use an older driver version.

[haploid23]

If I have an old scrypt miner with a r9 290 GPU, would that be usable to generate my address? If so, would this be magnitudes faster than using a intel quadcore with hyperthread?

Sorry for the basic question, just started dabbing into vanity addresses.

Yes orders of magnitude faster, but as has come up many times here before, you'll probably need to use an older driver version.

Thanks for reply. Can you please point me to what page is appropriate to start reading this thread when it comes to newer R9 series GPU? Last I've tried, these GPU's can only backtrack to certain drivers.

[Trillium]

If I have an old scrypt miner with a r9 290 GPU, would that be usable to generate my address? If so, would this be magnitudes faster than using a intel quadcore with hyperthread?

Sorry for the basic question, just started dabbing into vanity addresses.

Yes orders of magnitude faster, but as has come up many times here before, you'll probably need to use an older driver version.

Thanks for reply. Can you please point me to what page is appropriate to start reading this thread when it comes to newer R9 series GPU? Last I've tried, these GPU's can only backtrack to certain drivers.

I would also like to know this since over the last month I've gotten rid of most of my pre-R9 cards and sure enough it doesn't work on my 280x now.

[deepceleron]

If I have an old scrypt miner with a r9 290 GPU, would that be usable to generate my address? If so, would this be magnitudes faster than using a intel quadcore with hyperthread?

Sorry for the basic question, just started dabbing into vanity addresses.

GPU address searching is done with oclvanitygen. ocl = OpenCL = computing on your video card. However, that newer GPU will have a finicky setup, requiring a specific driver version and a modded version of this program. You might search this entire thread and the "lifeboat" vanitygen thread to see if anybody has gotten that particular GPU working, to discover their settings.