So is it profitable for hackers and how much easy it is generate such vanity address? And its cannot be done by a single individual because it's require much processing power and other things.So what are your thoughts on this?
It is not that hard and there is a step by step
Guide to create your customized Vanity Bitcoin-Address and
Guide How To Create Vanity Address with Vanitysearch.
There is also VanityPool for requesting vanity address, and websites like
Originaladdress.net that can generate it but not sure how legit and safe it is to use.
To create address starting with
musk it takes about 20 hours, with
sat takes 20 minutes, and I created address starting with
69 in 1 minute.
I have no idea why people like Vanity addresses so much that they are even willing to send Bitcoin to scammers like it happened few days ago when someone sent 5 BTC to fake giveaway address starting with
1EMusk...
WhaleAlert reported it and they probably used youtube and fake websites Elon Musk websites like this:
https://twitter.com/whale_alert/status/1366510689720803330