mikerbiker6 (OP)
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May 24, 2014, 05:26:49 PM |
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I saw some people with a nice bitcoin adress like: 1E1igiusfEjs1pCaGjEERExE9gYcrFwow7 (eliguis)
How did they make this, just make random adresses for days untill you own a cool one with your name in it. Or is there a better way?
Please explain.
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May 24, 2014, 05:30:11 PM |
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Vanitygen, Google it or see my signature.
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May 24, 2014, 05:31:03 PM Last edit: May 24, 2014, 07:19:34 PM by phillipsjk |
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James' OpenPGP public key fingerprint: EB14 9E5B F80C 1F2D 3EBE 0A2F B3DE 81FF 7B9D 5160
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May 24, 2014, 06:51:59 PM |
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These are the vanity addresses that the people make using the brute force. it requires some kind of software and generation of these addresses takes time.
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mikerbiker6 (OP)
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May 24, 2014, 07:40:38 PM |
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thanks for all the replies! These are the vanity addresses that the people make using the brute force. it requires some kind of software and generation of these addresses takes time.
Well I thought there was a more clever way, but bruteforce it is.
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May 24, 2014, 09:43:33 PM |
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thanks for all the replies! These are the vanity addresses that the people make using the brute force. it requires some kind of software and generation of these addresses takes time.
Well I thought there was a more clever way, but bruteforce it is. if there was a more clever way it wouldn't be very well encrypted.
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phillipsjk
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May 24, 2014, 10:09:49 PM |
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Well I thought there was a more clever way, but bruteforce it is.
Vanitygen actually avoids redoing expensive calculations over and over again (mainly doing additions as I understand it). So it is a little clever.
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May 25, 2014, 01:22:21 AM |
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I know people use vanity generators for addresses like it's no big deal to make millions of addresses, But at some point if BTC gets mass adored wouldn't we run out of addresses?
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May 25, 2014, 03:29:56 AM |
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I know people use vanity generators for addresses like it's no big deal to make millions of addresses, But at some point if BTC gets mass adored wouldn't we run out of addresses?
No. Never.
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May 25, 2014, 03:35:26 AM |
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I know people use vanity generators for addresses like it's no big deal to make millions of addresses, But at some point if BTC gets mass adored wouldn't we run out of addresses?
I sure hope it gets mass adored.
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May 25, 2014, 03:55:46 AM |
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I know people use vanity generators for addresses like it's no big deal to make millions of addresses, But at some point if BTC gets mass adored wouldn't we run out of addresses?
Trust me, the sheer keyspace is far larger than that. Generating an address doesn't touch the network at all. You'd only be wasting your CPU resources and disk space.
Also, a collision is highly unlikely.
Keys are 256 bit in length and are hashed in a 160 bit address.(2^160th power) Divide it by the world population and you have about 215,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 addresses per capita. @OP: I would advise oclvanitygen (try the updated lifeboat one) rather than just pure vanitygen as GPUs will work more efficiently at finding addresses than CPUs.
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May 25, 2014, 06:34:27 AM |
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Is there another way to create addresses programatically?
I am having a hell of a time trying to get vanitygen to work on RedHat. I just need to be able to produce addresses with private keys offline.
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May 25, 2014, 06:36:56 AM |
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Is there another way to create addresses programatically?
I am having a hell of a time trying to get vanitygen to work on RedHat. I just need to be able to produce addresses with private keys offline.
Have you seen my python script built from the electrum codebase? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=612143.0(just make sure to get a new random seed, dont use the default!)
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May 25, 2014, 06:38:46 AM |
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Is there another way to create addresses programatically?
I am having a hell of a time trying to get vanitygen to work on RedHat. I just need to be able to produce addresses with private keys offline.
Have you seen my python script built from the electrum codebase? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=612143.0(just make sure to get a new random seed, dont use the default!) Thanks for the info. I'll check it out.
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May 25, 2014, 06:40:29 AM |
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if you have any questions dont hesitate to send me a pm
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May 25, 2014, 07:01:56 AM |
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There are a multitude of programs for generating vanity addresses but you should definitely do your research on how they work and their authors before you use them.
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mikerbiker6 (OP)
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May 25, 2014, 08:33:46 AM |
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There are a multitude of programs for generating vanity addresses but you should definitely do your research on how they work and their authors before you use them.
What could go wrong for example?
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May 25, 2014, 09:53:00 AM |
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There are a multitude of programs for generating vanity addresses but you should definitely do your research on how they work and their authors before you use them.
What could go wrong for example? Someone writes a program that creates a public and private key for you, but is easily replicated. All they have to do is run their program to obtain your public key and they then have your private key. Or something to that affect.
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May 26, 2014, 07:47:00 AM |
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Is there another way to create addresses programatically?
I am having a hell of a time trying to get vanitygen to work on RedHat. I just need to be able to produce addresses with private keys offline.
Sounds like you may be interesting in the sx command line utilities
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James' OpenPGP public key fingerprint: EB14 9E5B F80C 1F2D 3EBE 0A2F B3DE 81FF 7B9D 5160
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