[List] VanityGen Wallet Generation - threads, how to & links

[LoyceV]

I get the feeling vanity addresses lost popularity after Segwit. I still use one (for historical reasons), but that's it. It's not worth the additional transaction fee, and bc1q-vanity addresses look much less nice.

[Timelord2067]

I get the feeling vanity addresses lost popularity after Segwit. I still use one (for historical reasons), but that's it. It's not worth the additional transaction fee, and bc1q-vanity addresses look much less nice.

Never-the-less there may be person's who have an interest in the subject hence the infrequent bump.

[DaveF]

And for the OCD among us, or at least those who have the great idea that I will get organized *soon* it allows us to categorize some things.
i.e. bc1qCarStuff...... or bc1qH0tSauce.... or bc1qC0llect and so on.

So this way looking back later I would be able to figure out what was what without searching though a bunch of random addresses.
Have not really been doing it, but there was that plan....

-Dave

[Synchronice]

I get the feeling vanity addresses lost popularity after Segwit. I still use one (for historical reasons), but that's it. It's not worth the additional transaction fee, and bc1q-vanity addresses look much less nice.

If you only make a bitcoin transactions once in a while when fees are low, then additional transaction fee worth the beautiful address. But it's good that they lost popularity.
My opinion is that vanitygen addresses should be avoided because it can attract scammers and make scam successful. For example, let's say that your regular address is 1LoyceVg9reuh89fwjfdshf8as9fasdx. We all know it's your address, name itself suggests. Let's say that scammer creates address that starts with 1LoyceV, creates a fake telegram with your name or let's say, hacks your account and asks for coins. Since humans aren't cautious, there is a very high chance that scammer will use that advantage, will make people confident that scam address belongs to LoyceV and it's actually LoyCev and finally, will scam people.
To be honest, that's just my hypothesis but I bet that's not far from reality. That's why I prefer to use randomly generated address. Vanity addresses are good for decoration.

[LoyceV]

And for the OCD among us, or at least those who have the great idea that I will get organized *soon* it allows us to categorize some things.
i.e. bc1qCarStuff...... or bc1qH0tSauce.... or bc1qC0llect and so on.

So this way looking back later I would be able to figure out what was what without searching though a bunch of random addresses.
Have not really been doing it, but there was that plan....

Why not use labels in your wallet for this? By using vanity addresses as labels, you're basically making your labels public. It's bad for privacy.

For example, let's say that your regular address is 1LoyceVg9r*******

You made me curious how many of the 1,219,157,164 used Bitcoin addresses contain "LoyceV" (case insensitive):

Code:

1Dd7BCtAQLEsKAn8LoYceVnChJugppMXbM
3DzkCVBN3VLoYCEVbhKxAsc7B2qg9pNW3h
1Ex3dKEQ62P1LoYcEVPs8ra5uWcMvj8XPC
179V56LoYCevph6CUwUNvP4huhYu9TiiVy
3LoYCEVV9PLS99113RXpayzpXJKdFiDTq9
1HBXxakN6qFL9CKVnrHLoyCeVguetikHsa
1LoyceVSbrv3CP3jT12qVYrNSbrqz4FL5q
3KtVhoLoYCEvvK4NjnfnAdvJk6NmPXau77
1J2VyNLLn2BLoyCevFPkUgcnJcGXwqWmWM
36X9KA5NueLSsPVjq3nLoyCEVbNdWcfMEc
1H28sq4JkXDp2UD3ULoyCeVJa4rnKcVrp2
3MPh3rUeD8xkZLcvwm7YtMKTdY5LoyCEvj
3LoyceVUWE9iUFKJT6ncGHgBGGXCwkGBeB
1DegqmsN9BXTyU7RMWysZX9ZqLoYcEVNtg
3K5K4gm4QmrBeBgTxqmYJLoYCEvsiPPis5

The list is a lot longer with "DaveF" (1699 entries)

[DaveF]

And for the OCD among us, or at least those who have the great idea that I will get organized *soon* it allows us to categorize some things.
i.e. bc1qCarStuff...... or bc1qH0tSauce.... or bc1qC0llect and so on.

So this way looking back later I would be able to figure out what was what without searching though a bunch of random addresses.
Have not really been doing it, but there was that plan....

Why not use labels in your wallet for this? By using vanity addresses as labels, you're basically making your labels public. It's bad for privacy.

When I am posting an address here for payment, or on another forum the loss of privacy by having it public is just about 0 if someone is looking.
Having a QR code on the table at the car show swap meet probably is worse.

For example, let's say that your regular address is 1LoyceVg9r*******

You made me curious how many of the 1,219,157,164 used Bitcoin addresses contain "LoyceV" (case insensitive):

Code:

1Dd7BCtAQLEsKAn8LoYceVnChJugppMXbM
3DzkCVBN3VLoYCEVbhKxAsc7B2qg9pNW3h
1Ex3dKEQ62P1LoYcEVPs8ra5uWcMvj8XPC
179V56LoYCevph6CUwUNvP4huhYu9TiiVy
3LoYCEVV9PLS99113RXpayzpXJKdFiDTq9
1HBXxakN6qFL9CKVnrHLoyCeVguetikHsa
1LoyceVSbrv3CP3jT12qVYrNSbrqz4FL5q
3KtVhoLoYCEvvK4NjnfnAdvJk6NmPXau77
1J2VyNLLn2BLoyCevFPkUgcnJcGXwqWmWM
36X9KA5NueLSsPVjq3nLoyCEVbNdWcfMEc
1H28sq4JkXDp2UD3ULoyCeVJa4rnKcVrp2
3MPh3rUeD8xkZLcvwm7YtMKTdY5LoyCEvj
3LoyceVUWE9iUFKJT6ncGHgBGGXCwkGBeB
1DegqmsN9BXTyU7RMWysZX9ZqLoYcEVNtg
3K5K4gm4QmrBeBgTxqmYJLoYCEvsiPPis5

The list is a lot longer with "DaveF" (1699 entries)

That's 5 characters for DaveF vs 6 for LoyceV so even eliminating the ones we posted those numbers are probably going to be similar for other character sets.

As I said, I never actually did as much with it as I wanted to, but there was a plan.

All in all, I still see Vanity addresses popping up and people using them, but it seems to have always been a more people who REALLY like BTC vs people who use BTC thing.

-Dave

[philipma1957]

And for the OCD among us, or at least those who have the great idea that I will get organized *soon* it allows us to categorize some things.
i.e. bc1qCarStuff...... or bc1qH0tSauce.... or bc1qC0llect and so on.

So this way looking back later I would be able to figure out what was what without searching though a bunch of random addresses.
Have not really been doing it, but there was that plan....

Why not use labels in your wallet for this? By using vanity addresses as labels, you're basically making your labels public. It's bad for privacy.

For example, let's say that your regular address is 1LoyceVg9r*******

You made me curious how many of the 1,219,157,164 used Bitcoin addresses contain "LoyceV" (case insensitive):

Code:

1Dd7BCtAQLEsKAn8LoYceVnChJugppMXbM
3DzkCVBN3VLoYCEVbhKxAsc7B2qg9pNW3h
1Ex3dKEQ62P1LoYcEVPs8ra5uWcMvj8XPC
179V56LoYCevph6CUwUNvP4huhYu9TiiVy
3LoYCEVV9PLS99113RXpayzpXJKdFiDTq9
1HBXxakN6qFL9CKVnrHLoyCeVguetikHsa
1LoyceVSbrv3CP3jT12qVYrNSbrqz4FL5q
3KtVhoLoYCEvvK4NjnfnAdvJk6NmPXau77
1J2VyNLLn2BLoyCevFPkUgcnJcGXwqWmWM
36X9KA5NueLSsPVjq3nLoyCEVbNdWcfMEc
1H28sq4JkXDp2UD3ULoyCeVJa4rnKcVrp2
3MPh3rUeD8xkZLcvwm7YtMKTdY5LoyCEvj
3LoyceVUWE9iUFKJT6ncGHgBGGXCwkGBeB
1DegqmsN9BXTyU7RMWysZX9ZqLoYcEVNtg
3K5K4gm4QmrBeBgTxqmYJLoYCEvsiPPis5

The list is a lot longer with "DaveF" (1699 entries)

could you research   1957philipma any case or spot.

I wanted to do a 1957philipma but it would have been a lot of spots.

I did do my wife's account

My alt is judypug1956 vanity addy: 1956jUdYPFwiBSzt9AECdWj3KE4WV7taiM 

this was 9 spots and was slow on a thread ripper.

[LoyceV]

could you research   1957philipma any case or spot.

I had to shorten it to just "1957ph" to get any results:

Code:

1957pHpw2NczcBMoCZfDZnn61MtAEj5xq
1PHmfYJhyDkT8hPAPuVuC8eoYRNd1957pH
1957pHrA5RvttCbYLHudhRFGhQeS9YrtSt
1957pHwhjnFsL2DEzWSKnvpxY9e7pYoAnW
1957phFBxJ8hHGar7dQtDq9zqs6HkEkXri
1957Ph96CWbMezFnqT8ABa49jFNRS7ozRN
1PjpYuDRze94L1957PhN78zPLnJAnjHgRD

Here's a bonus for "philip":

Code:

1PhiLipWvVjPqi6HtMEMfKtTkusPMYKMEw
1PhiLiP6WbKjJtGAaPhgEHvX9wkmHKS9dL
1PHiLiPtp3iDBkQ1pKvGU4SRbi3kiZH441
33esKMjspfDh23KJpHiLiPr615P467Ghq1
1JnsuCbPXd6t19CVaRfreb9VoVNPhiLiPU
1PHiLiPPvcAkxEbvXhL6t4uGb3vdfE72Lb
34vEPHiLiPMQiqJjpgNzBJxzhVjzPzqaKh

[apogio]

Just for testing reasons, I have developed a Vanity Address generator in Java. Here is the thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5467234.0 Feel free to check it out.

[Timelord2067]

Just for testing reasons, I have developed a Vanity Address generator in Java. Here is the thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5467234.0 Feel free to check it out.

Hey thanks for the advice.

Does it work on a NUC PC?

It's been years since I had a box with graphics cards.

[apogio]

Hey thanks for the advice.

Does it work on a NUC PC?

It's been years since I had a box with graphics cards.

It can run on a NUC yes!

However please note that it is slower than other options and that I have developed it out of curiousity and not to make it a super useful program. Any advice is welcome ofcourse.

[ABCbits]

And for the OCD among us, or at least those who have the great idea that I will get organized *soon* it allows us to categorize some things.
i.e. bc1qCarStuff...... or bc1qH0tSauce.... or bc1qC0llect and so on.

Your idea violate BIP 173 though. I also expect some software would throw error or invalid address message.

Decoders MUST NOT accept strings where some characters are uppercase and some are lowercase (such strings are referred to as mixed case strings).