New Vanity Address Service: https://Vante.me

[Kozan]

How safe is this service?

After the scan report about another vanity service I am now very cautious about this.

I Really would like to get a new vanity wallet but if I am not 100% sure it's safe I will not using this service.

Any feedback so far?

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[gatherc]

Hi,

One of the developers here - if you create the public/private key on your own computer, our service is 100% safe, guaranteed by math. There's a link to a youtube video showing how to generate this keypair, the video link is in the second step of creating a vanity address. (we'll put this and other videos on the frontpage asap).

It's good that you ask these questions, because any service not using split-key address generation is a security risk.
Generating the keypair in the browser (we also provide this for quick tests) is better, but not completely safe.

Read the other comments for people vouching for this method (we didn't invent this) and give it a try !

[Quartx]

How safe is this service?

After the scan report about another vanity service I am now very cautious about this.

I Really would like to get a new vanity wallet but if I am not 100% sure it's safe I will not using this service.

Any feedback so far?

If you are talking about bitcoinvanitygen.com scam. It is because that site generates the private key wholesale and sent it to you, and they claim to delete the associated private key (lol to those who actually used that). OPs service uses split key generation, he has half of the key required, it would take forever for him to get the other half unless your computer is already compromised. If you are really scared you can diy yourself too haha

Edit : I realised I'm sounding more associated to op than I actually am. I am not related to op at all. I am just one of the few who provided this sort of service several years back (when there was no demand for that matter)  so I kinda know how it works.

Just be sure that given the private half key generated. Be sure to add to your own half, do not simply import the given half to blockchain or you are simply harming yourself

[DarkStar_]

How safe is this service?

After the scan report about another vanity service I am now very cautious about this.

I Really would like to get a new vanity wallet but if I am not 100% sure it's safe I will not using this service.

Any feedback so far?

This service, unlike other scamming services uses split key generation, which basically means you generate a key, give them the public key, and the public key is the only thing they see, apart from the key they generate. Once they give you the key they generate, you use the private key of the public key you gave them, and they mix together creating a private key that the person who generated never saw/knew about. So yes, it is perfectly safe. They could brute force your private key, but that would take a long long time, since the private key is a long mixture of numbers/letters.

[twister]

@twister

the form should look like this:


I requested the '1testing' vanity address.

On the next step of the form you should see the screen below, the arrow pointing to the field where you need to fill in your public key:

For some reason the form wasn't working for me on firefox, this is how it looked : https://i.imgur.com/BreUi3C.png but I tried on chrome and can see it now, will try to generate some free addys to see how long it takes. The one I want costs 2.74 BTC  but it contains 7 characters so thats understandable but even the 5 char ones are 0.01 BTC, bit high imho.

[gatherc]

Thanks for the report, in my Firefox it works fine, could you tell me your Firefox version + OS?

Not all 7 character addresses are that expensive, some are more expensive to calculate than others (due to how bitcoin addresses are calculated). Best is indeed to start with a free address to see how it goes, these are not high priority so can take half an hour or so.

[twister]

I was using latest firefox on a linux machine and it does that sometimes, for instance I cannot play videos from certain sites in it but that is where chrome comes in handy. How long does say a 5 character address takes to be calculated? Will try with a free one, need to download bitaddress first for the key pair. Thx

[gatherc]

Thanks for the report, that's strange, will test on linux as well.

As for the 5 character address I don't know (the calculation is in the site, can't do it off the top of my head), but since it's still relatively short I'm guessing around 1 hour. For all address sizes we aim to calculate the address in less than 24h.

[fqsbits]

After losing 2.62 BTC (see 1FabioUj74f7Vf1qJD9ENa15XxzUNLVeW9) I advise
everybody to be extra careful. Generate your own pvt key off line using linux
in a pendrive and only use it for one transaction. Never use the same pvt key!
It's not worth it running unnecessary risks because of wanting to have a
personalized Bitcoin address.
Whoever stole my BTCs have no idea what they did to me and my family.
Cyber criminals have no heart. I know this for a fact. If they had a heart they,
at least, wouldn't wipe all the funds. Maybe only half or 1/3.
Stop and think with me: why stealing all the BTCs?
With half the amount they would still be happy, but no, they are so cruel.
They don't care about other peoples lives other than their own and don't
consider the consequences of a theft like that in other people's lives.

[gatherc]

Good advice fqsbits!
Protecting the private key is indeed very important.
Generate it, store it safely and have backups.

If you're not sure how to do this or have found a good resource explaining how to do it feel free to comment here.

[Poloherb]

Good advice fqsbits!
Protecting the private key is indeed very important.
Generate it, store it safely and have backups.

If you're not sure how to do this or have found a good resource explaining how to do it feel free to comment here.

I can tell the keys have been stolen
my address 1DoNATeVUFvfgwmZLr6CHBXgQFus5sVnsS
transaction in which other addresses have been emptied with the specials name f2d3adfd0296b94a44a7ac69a11d9146b4998df75daee96fa29095394df3dcf5

There was one payment transfer since the address was generated. The key was never used and kept in a locked safe. After four years the funds disappeared stolen