Vanitygen: Generate an address with X characters

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

How can I get vanitygen to generate an address with a certain amount of characters - for example 32 or 33?

[xeroc]

use
$ vanitygen -r "1[A-Z]{8,10}"
to get 8 to 10 upper case letters A-Z

use
$ vanitygen -r "1[a-zA-Z]{8,10}"
to get 8 to 10 upper and lower case letters a-zA-Z

and so on

[jackjack]

You want to choose 32 characters?

[xeroc]

You want to choose 32 characters?

What he wants to say is: You need a next to infinite amount of time to get one.

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

You want to choose 32 characters?

No. I want any address that is 32 characters long. According to the Bitcoin wiki, Base58 can be as short as 27 characters.

[DannyHamilton]

You want to choose 32 characters?

No. I want any address that is 32 characters long. According to the Bitcoin wiki, Base58 can be as short as 27 characters.

Would the following work?

$ vanitygen -r "1[a-zA-Z0-9]{31}"

How about:

$ vanitygen -r "1TF[a-zA-Z0-9]{29}"

[jackjack]

As short as 26 characters actually:

Code:

Hash160                                                             Address Length
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0000000000000000000000000000000000000001         11111111111111111111BZbvjr 26
0000000000000000000000000000000000000002         11111111111111111111HeBAGj 26
0000000000000000000000000000000000000004         11111111111111111111UpYBrS 26
0000000000000000000000000000000000000008         11111111111111111111ufYVpS 26
0000000000000000000000000000000000000010        111111111111111111112tWLmyD 27
0000000000000000000000000000000000000020        111111111111111111114gFexwh 27
0000000000000000000000000000000000000040        111111111111111111118GEJCAf 27
0000000000000000000000000000000000000080        11111111111111111111FTT1teG 27
0000000000000000000000000000000000000100         1111111111111111111VxYUzGa 26
0000000000000000000000000000000000000200         1111111111111111111znxA3Zk 26
0000000000000000000000000000000000000400        11111111111111111112zdQC4qC 27
0000000000000000000000000000000000000800        11111111111111111114z7QSsiZ 27
0000000000000000000000000000000000001000        11111111111111111118yBYPpbb 27
0000000000000000000000000000000000002000        1111111111111111111GwJ2i64e 27
0000000000000000000000000000000000004000        1111111111111111111YsWcdci1 27
0000000000000000000000000000000000008000       111111111111111111126jzwvK8Y 28
0000000000000000000000000000000000010000        1111111111111111113CUwR5jzj 27
0000000000000000000000000000000000020000        1111111111111111115Pxqs2WgU 27
0000000000000000000000000000000000040000        1111111111111111119nvXxNtWD 27
0000000000000000000000000000000000080000        111111111111111111JaqyjoJka 27
0000000000000000000000000000000000100000        111111111111111111cAgzNhQLf 27
0000000000000000000000000000000000200000       1111111111111111112DLNujfxAn 28
0000000000000000000000000000000000400000       1111111111111111113RfkifdrkF 28
0000000000000000000000000000000000800000       1111111111111111115rLWQoAkU8 28
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0000000000000000000000000000000002000000        11111111111111111LQM2gwLUSG 27
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0000000000000000000000000000000008000000       111111111111111112LcP7ZfGXHF 28
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0000000000000000000000000000000040000000       11111111111111111Bht3tjpJRd8 28
0000000000000000000000000000000080000000       11111111111111111NQm6nQyQJud 28
0000000000000000000000000000000100000000        1111111111111111jpXCZgqjvZA 27
0000000000000000000000000000000200000000       11111111111111112Ue3Q8MoQygj 28
0000000000000000000000000000000400000000       11111111111111113xH5oFeuxw9W 28
0000000000000000000000000000000800000000       11111111111111116uZAbWCMV54h 28
0000000000000000000000000000001000000000       1111111111111111Cp7LC1QTNX5D 28
0000000000000000000000000000002000000000       1111111111111111QdDfP1pM6Wew 28
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0000000000000000000000000000010000000000       1111111111111114FzkJ378fUCf8 28
0000000000000000000000000000020000000000       1111111111111117WzVb5DB97YyE 28
0000000000000000000000000000040000000000       111111111111111E2yzB9RHWjwMe 28
0000000000000000000000000000080000000000       111111111111111T4xyMHqb4Wssa 28
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0000000000000000000000000080000000000000      11111111111111Yjy1kTv4cvroL1D 29
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[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

You want to choose 32 characters?

No. I want any address that is 32 characters long. According to the Bitcoin wiki, Base58 can be as short as 27 characters.

Would the following work?

$ vanitygen -r "1[a-zA-Z0-9]{31}"

How about:

$ vanitygen -r "1TF[a-zA-Z0-9]{29}"

v0.22 doesn't seem to support -r.

[xeroc]

v0.22 doesn't seem to support -r.

git checkout https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen.git

//EDIT
interesting .. i dont even see a v0.22 in git tag list

[manic]

You want to choose 32 characters?

No. I want any address that is 32 characters long. According to the Bitcoin wiki, Base58 can be as short as 27 characters.

Would the following work?

$ vanitygen -r "1[a-zA-Z0-9]{31}"

How about:

$ vanitygen -r "1TF[a-zA-Z0-9]{29}"

v0.22 doesn't seem to support -r.

-r is cpu only

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

You want to choose 32 characters?

No. I want any address that is 32 characters long. According to the Bitcoin wiki, Base58 can be as short as 27 characters.

Would the following work?

$ vanitygen -r "1[a-zA-Z0-9]{31}"

How about:

$ vanitygen -r "1TF[a-zA-Z0-9]{29}"

Vanitygen doesn't support this.

[CIYAM]

Why not just use 1TF repeatedly and filter out all non-32 byte addresses?

[xeroc]

You want to choose 32 characters?

No. I want any address that is 32 characters long. According to the Bitcoin wiki, Base58 can be as short as 27 characters.

Would the following work?

$ vanitygen -r "1[a-zA-Z0-9]{31}"

How about:

$ vanitygen -r "1TF[a-zA-Z0-9]{29}"

Vanitygen doesn't support this.

works well here:
$:~> vanitygen -r "1TF[a-zA-Z0-9]{29}"
Pattern: 1TF[a-zA-Z0-9]{29}                                                    
Address: 1TFruxZdjX6gGcnsi5RiJuSKEquFucFn9
Privkey: 5KffTVkH2wj3pHUi2LCQkFYSJiMPWMzCXYhFjvqXStxhU77CmAT

[Michael_S]

No correct answer to the original question of the OP up to now...

So, here's the correct answer for vanitygen 0.22 (tested under Linux) (the option "-k" at the end is optional and makes it generating more addresses after one has been found):

Generate a key with address length=34:

Code:

$ ./vanitygen -r "^1[a-zA-Z0-9]{33}$" -k

Generate a key with address length=33:

Code:

$ ./vanitygen -r "^1[a-zA-Z0-9]{32}$" -k

Generate a key with address length=32 (Hint: This may take a little while...):

Code:

$ ./vanitygen -r "^1[a-zA-Z0-9]{31}$" -k

Generate a key with address length=31 (Warning: This may take quite a while...):

Code:

$ ./vanitygen -r "^1[a-zA-Z0-9]{30}$" -k

Generate a key with address length=30 (Warning: This may take VERY long!):

Code:

$ ./vanitygen -r "^1[a-zA-Z0-9]{31}$" -k

Generate a key with address length=29 (Warning: This may take VERY VERY long!):

Code:

$ ./vanitygen -r "^1[a-zA-Z0-9]{28}$" -k

Generate a key with address length=28 (Warning: This may take VERY VERY VERY long!):

Code:

$ ./vanitygen -r "^1[a-zA-Z0-9]{27}$" -k

Generate a key with address length=27  (Warning: This may take VERY VERY VERY VERY long!):

Code:

$ ./vanitygen -r "^1[a-zA-Z0-9]{26}$" -k

Explanation:
To get *exactly* a certain amount of characters (32 for example), you need a regular expression that includes the indicators for "start of string" (^) and "end of string" ($).

For example the regular expression

Code:

^1[a-zA-Z0-9]{31}$

means:
After the (invisible) start character (^) there is a "1", followed by exactly 31 occurrences of any character a-z or A-Z or 0-9, followed by the (invisible) end character ($).

In contrast, the regular expression

Code:

^1[a-zA-Z0-9]{31}

(i.e. omitting the trailing "$") means that an arbitrary number of characters may follow after the first 32 characters --> so in this case you will end up with a 34 character address in most cases, instead of the desired address of length 32.

A few examples of addresses of 32 characters length generated with above method:

Code:

Pattern: ^1[a-zA-Z0-9]{31}$
Address: 111ewZDvNuUB1vu7xK7KNWwzU35gNJkW
Privkey: 5HrMK2FSRD7dcRJ7unXYLmC6ZA5zSgJP1fdtXdAQ5Xc4tD1U7fk
Pattern: ^1[a-zA-Z0-9]{31}$
Address: 111vB1s4BdUhvoKhdo6waSCqkB8d9tJ1
Privkey: 5J1BgHaSs8o9fPVPTxbRd2jp7ouSAP8eKi5dpcMi1z59RECZs1U
Pattern: ^1[a-zA-Z0-9]{31}$
Address: 111uSRFo91baBW2A8jRqXNJFdhvCFMJK
Privkey: 5Jgv9enDmwpAVkPcZBzZkntBnpSsHutf8amoMv6mPBSDAdvARYj

PS: To generate an address of length 32 characters *or less*, you would do this:

Code:

$ ./vanitygen -r "^1[a-zA-Z0-9]{0,31}$" -k

It means: After "start of string" (^), put a "1" (one), followed by "n" occurrences of a character or number, where "n" can be anything between 0 and 31. This is followed by "end of string" ($).

[Michael_S]

You want to choose 32 characters?

What he wants to say is: You need a next to infinite amount of time to get one.

I generated 11 addresses of *exactly* 32 characters length each within 10 or 15 minutes, on a more than 7 years old CPU that was already cheap when I bought my PC.

That is not really what I would call "infinite amount of time".

[flatfly]

Why not simplify your regexes as follows:

rather than: 1[a-zA-Z0-9]{31}
try:            .{32}

and so on...