Vanity Pool - vanity address generator pool

[Otoh]

Many thanks, but unfortunately that's way out of my league for using, I don't use windows & though I trust Casascius I don't download stuff & I just don't know enough to be sure that I'm not exposing my part of the private key to attempt this, I am geek lvl 0.

It does look very useful though & if I get a separate computer in the future from the one where I log on to stuff then I will experiment with it.

[1713855578]

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[1713855578]

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[nimda]

I don't download stuff... I am geek lvl 0.

Not downloading stuff puts you in the 90th percentile or better already

[Otoh]

After further investigation I've decided it's safe to download & have, but am unable to unarchive/extract the BtcAddress.exe on my Mac, seems that it's a for Windows only program which i don't use. Any help in getting the https://gobittest.appspot.com/VanityMult & sum sites working or who to ask would be appreciated, thanks.

[scintill]

After further investigation I've decided it's safe to download & have, but am unable to unarchive/extract the BtcAddress.exe on my Mac, seems that it's a for Windows only program which i don't use. Any help in getting the https://gobittest.appspot.com/VanityMult & sum sites working or who to ask would be appreciated, thanks.

What about https://www.bitaddress.org/ -> Vanity Wallet tab?  I haven't personally used it, but it seems pretty straightforward and bitaddress.org has been trustworthy and pretty solid.  It seems this pool uses EC Addition to derive the key, but on that you could just choose whichever option gives you the vanity address you expected.

[Otoh]

I forgot to mention the https://gobittest.appspot.com/VanityMult & sum site has been working fine when I tested it with some old solved van gens. I assumed with ASICs arriving that there may be more miners solving these but seems to have gone quiet atm results wise, maybe they're all mining Litecoins or something.

[area]

hi, when I check the solution - including old ones that I know are correct, on https://gobittest.appspot.com/VanityMult & sum site I have been getting an error message for the last 12 hrs plus:

Error: Server Error
The server encountered an error and could not complete your request.

If the problem persists, please report your problem and mention this error message and the query that caused it.

... any help welcomed pse, ty!

I'm getting this error too, both when submitting via vanityminer and on the website. When doing the latter, sometimes I can get 'Solution does not match the pattern'. I was working on the 1arieLh pattern, if you are able to look at logs and figure out what is going on.

[gadman2]

Does the solved work have to be case sensitive? I searched the thread for "case" and didn't find anything. For example, right now the first in available work is 1111Wish, does it have to be exactly that, or perhaps 1111WiSH, 1111WisH, 1111wish, or one of the many others? If not, then I believe the pool should have an option for the user who is requesting the address to be case sensitive or not. This would promote a few more sales.

[ThePiachu]

Does the solved work have to be case sensitive? I searched the thread for "case" and didn't find anything. For example, right now the first in available work is 1111Wish, does it have to be exactly that, or perhaps 1111WiSH, 1111WisH, 1111wish, or one of the many others? If not, then I believe the pool should have an option for the user who is requesting the address to be case sensitive or not. This would promote a few more sales.

The solution is case sensitive as properly charging for regexp work is a bit too complex for me to implement at the moment.

[nimda]

Does the solved work have to be case sensitive? I searched the thread for "case" and didn't find anything. For example, right now the first in available work is 1111Wish, does it have to be exactly that, or perhaps 1111WiSH, 1111WisH, 1111wish, or one of the many others? If not, then I believe the pool should have an option for the user who is requesting the address to be case sensitive or not. This would promote a few more sales.

The solution is case sensitive as properly charging for regexp work is a bit too complex for me to implement at the moment.

Case insensitivity does not require regex and the difficulty calculation is fairly simple.

[Otoh]

hi, when I check the solution - including old ones that I know are correct, on https://gobittest.appspot.com/VanityMult & sum site I have been getting an error message for the last 12 hrs plus:

Error: Server Error
The server encountered an error and could not complete your request.

If the problem persists, please report your problem and mention this error message and the query that caused it.

... any help welcomed pse, ty!

I'm getting this error message again & it's beyond me to even know how to report it correctly when I go to the report page, I'd very much appreciate if someone could do this for me & all who wish to be able to continue to use it, many thanks indeed to whoever solved a bunch of mine today after a long hiatus, including a lovely 9 chars after the 1 of 1AUSTRALiA that's been there from near the start of this for a very well deserved 0.9 btc bounty.

[ThePiachu]

hi, when I check the solution - including old ones that I know are correct, on https://gobittest.appspot.com/VanityMult & sum site I have been getting an error message for the last 12 hrs plus:

Error: Server Error
The server encountered an error and could not complete your request.

If the problem persists, please report your problem and mention this error message and the query that caused it.

... any help welcomed pse, ty!

I'm getting this error message again & it's beyond me to even know how to report it correctly when I go to the report page, I'd very much appreciate if someone could do this for me & all who wish to be able to continue to use it, many thanks indeed to whoever solved a bunch of mine today after a long hiatus, including a lovely 9 chars after the 1 of 1AUSTRALiA that's been there from near the start of this for a very well deserved 0.9 btc bounty.

Hmm, this is very strange - the admin logs aren't more helpful:

W 2013-05-21 13:08:19.148
A problem was encountered with the process that handled this request, causing it to exit. This is likely to cause a new process to be used for the next request to your application. (Error code 204)

I will be looking into that today.

[Otoh]

Many thanks TP!

[ThePiachu]

In the mean time, I can see that

https://www.bitaddress.org

have added support for both addition and multiplication, so you can give them a bash.

[neurobox]

Sorry if I hammered your logs for a bit there, is 4 minutes acceptable for get work requests?

I'm putting final touches on a simple WSH script to pick the most profitable request out of the most possible requests, and manage vanitygen based on that. Next I'll add automatic submittal, though I suppose it'll be hard to test.

If anyone's interested in it, I'm fairly interested in donations

[ThePiachu]

Sorry if I hammered your logs for a bit there, is 4 minutes acceptable for get work requests?

I'm putting final touches on a simple WSH script to pick the most profitable request out of the most possible requests, and manage vanitygen based on that. Next I'll add automatic submittal, though I suppose it'll be hard to test.

If anyone's interested in it, I'm fairly interested in donations

Well, if you need to test your scripts, there is always https://vanitypooltest.appspot.com/ , running the same code, just on TestNet. Feel free to abuse that as needed.

And what do you mean by "is 4 minutes acceptable for get work requests"? Asking for new work every 4 minutes? Sending a response within 4 minutes? Something else? At any rate, yes, yes, and you'd need to elaborate.

[neurobox]

Oh sorry.. I had read fizzisist's "hammering" comments as though they were yours.

I'd like to check up on https://vanitypool.appspot.com/getWork as frequently as is tolerable, seeing as less complex requests will come and go much quicker than the eternal paradoxes which presently dominate the leaderboard. Is 30 seconds cool with you?

Also I might suggest running a secondary pool for case-insensitive searches, which is only a matter of the -i switch on oclvanityminer, and probably a simple quantity to correct pricing for (as opposed to regex work). This could be of greater interest to those looking for firstbits addresses.

[ThePiachu]

Many thanks TP!

Okay, it appears to be working (at least at the moment). I am not sure what caused it, but removing some unnecessary logs appears to have helped.

Oh sorry.. I had read fizzisist's "hammering" comments as though they were yours.

I'd like to check up on https://vanitypool.appspot.com/getWork as frequently as is tolerable, seeing as less complex requests will come and go much quicker than the eternal paradoxes which presently dominate the leaderboard. Is 30 seconds cool with you?

Also I might suggest running a secondary pool for case-insensitive searches, which is only a matter of the -i switch on oclvanityminer, and probably a simple quantity to correct pricing for (as opposed to regex work). This could be of greater interest to those looking for firstbits addresses.

That frequency is okay.

I will have to look into allowing for case-insensitivity with the next big update, I have a few features planned already, but am busy working on other things at the moment.

[Otoh]

Many thanks, the gobittest.appspot.com calculators are working again & congrats on solving another 9 chars after the 1 van addie:

1AUSTRALiApPytKTdRmvEyuGLxQFjsbhL2

This thread for the Rare Address Hall of Fame may be of interest to those here.

[ThePiachu]

Just a note for the future - the FAQ has been updated - https://vanitypool.appspot.com/faq . Two new rules - we will reimburse the first person to report an error on the website that prevents them from submitting their work if they contact us with a proper solution, and a proper solution is base16, not WIF. Later I will add WIF support, but that's not until the next big update.

[Boelens]

So uhm - how does this work? I want to mine, I got the miner software, what now? Do you get the miner fees for solving them?

EDIT I've also got a problem, want to get one, want to pay, but it tells me to send to :
mp6kXv1sV3GmYuuaynfRcs6DxcncE9qGxt

Which isn't a valid BTC address..

EDIT2 : I found the pattern and other thingies, and know how CMD works, but what is the exact line I need to put in?