I want a vanity address with an actual Seed. What safe programs exist for this?

[awavewalia]

I apologize for not posting this in one of the technical subforms, but no "New Topic" button appears, so here I am.

I am interested in a vanity address and I refuse to pay someone for it: sounds like a great way to get compromised and only discover it years from now!

I have an M3 Max that will soon be available to pick up which I think is a 16-core CPU and a 40-core GPU. This is the best device I have for localized searches, and I want to actually use it.

The problem is that programs I tried in the best all use "Deterministic Seeds" (which is not a seed phrase) to grab you a private key.

However, what I want is an actual seed phrase I can memorize and then format the computer, putting only the master public key (zpub) in an email through another device, not just a private key(s).

I noticed that in Electrum, if I display 1000 addresses (from the same seed), then I am able to find two of them are not the best but could be acceptable as vanity addresses to someone else. This makes me think that if I simply go through enough seeds that make 13 addresses each, then, within 800 different seeds (getting me 10,400 receiving addresses if we only count & observe 13 addresses from each seed), that I will find an address I do accept as my own address. It won't display the number sequence or words I most wanted, but it will be something that gives my address some "character".

Is there any set of terminal scripts or safe programs I can run that will create these 800 seeds for me and check addresses #2 ~ #14 (because the very first address is something ignored based on which app you use when you eventually Hot Wallet your seed), so I don't have to try 800 seeds by hand? I'm not the best coder (though I can usually tell if I'm being given malicious commands) but I want a set of commands that searches for a list of common English words that I myself choose (eg, "build", "tree", "VAIN", "Hundred", "POTATO",  and also sequential hex numbers (eg 000099BBCC or 333999EefF)

When I say "safe", I mean it can't be a program that generates an address in such a way that can be replicated by another person.

You can't choose the right parents. But if you can choose the right Bitcoin address, then I won't leave this up to fate.

[dkbit98]

You should pay attention that weak entropy can get broken much easier, and people use coins that way all the time.

However, what I want is an actual seed phrase I can memorize and then format the computer, putting only the master public key (zpub) in an email through another device, not just a private key(s).

I would never suggest anyone to use his brain as only backup of seed words, especially if we are talking about 24 words, but even 12 is problematic.
This is not long term solution because human memory is getting progressively worse in time, there is dementia, injuries and other health problems.

[awavewalia]

"I would never suggest anyone to use his brain as only backup of seed words"

Every single time I mention this I get this comment and I am sick of hearing it. If I lose it (except to a criminal) then enjoy the donation. I'll only apologize for not sending the donation to the genesis address to enable the donation to be easily trackable. If I keep the seed engraved in metal and someone breaks in and sees it, they might take it and then I can't even restore it unless of course I remember it anyway which means I could have engraved a worthless decoy phrase instead. Also you said "health problems" which I already have and so my whole purpose of using Bitcoin is to outsmart criminals who attack in large numbers or with weapons to destroy anyone that they feel has not respected their filthy selves enough. I can prevent a financial loss this way. It's not like the police is willing to charge everyone with a crime when they should. It's not like 911 operators are co-operative if you're getting your finances messed up by criminals just attacking you in-person or that are part of a bank.
The seed stays in my head. This is non-negotiable. I don't need to hear it. People claiming to have dementia abuse female nursing staff and state they are entitled to them and if I become identifiable as having it then I sure don't need the power of Bitcoin too.


"You should pay attention that weak entropy can get broken much easier"
Yes, indeed, I know... if someone uses the same program ...it would be nice if I had a script that interacts with Sparrow to only use that to generate the phrase, and then after it forces sparrow to re-run so many times, it then checks the public addresses for the words I want.

[awavewalia]

I finally just coded it myself and I'm executing it in Terminal. Unfortunately, to get pip to work, I had to run/install brew, and the action of doing so gets me concerned about security. Is it safe to install brew just to unlock pip or more Python functions? It retries seeds over and over again. I can't share the entire program because that would constitute a security risk, but I can at least ask which modules are not reliable to import for this purpose. I didn't start with Bitcoin because BTC is the most important and if I'm approaching it, I want to do it when I'm at my maximum skill. For the crypto I generated seeds for, I found some seeds but got held up in finding a mobile wallet that displays the first 15+ addresses in the wallet so I can verify my strategy is working...

My biggest question is about bip_utils. When I'm downloading it, I'm not airgapped. I have to disconnect after the modules are all downloaded and often retry.

Also, Solana isn't as important, but if anyone has a script I can save in a nano in Terminal as a .py, that retries seeds for Sol wallets for the phrase(s) I want in any position in the wallet ID, I'd appreciate it.