Paper wallet

you can find the public address type of most coins easily in their source under base58.h around line 270-ish


Example https://github.com/urocoin/uro/blob/master/src/base58.h#L275

you can use a vanity address generator to generate a private key / public key combo for any altcoin you know the "PUBKEY_ADDRESS" it searches for a prefix you define (start of address)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0
link to .22 software https://github.com/downloads/samr7/vanitygen/vanitygen-0.22-win.zip
source https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen

Simple way to use vanitygen in windows:
unzip the download
create a new text file in the same folder


save the file as Uro.bat (select all file types)
click on the batch file, a window will pop up and your cpu will search for an address starting with Uro

What is -i and -X ? common flags for vanitygen include:
-i    the prefix search will look for a match not paying attention to capital or undercase letters
-X   sets the base 58 version byte, different altcoins use different so their addresses start with a specific character
-k   keep searching for more matches after onen has been found
-o   set a file to write an output of this match to, example will create a text file called found and dump the result(s) there

theres more but thats the basic

good luck.

for shits n giggles i made an address for each base 58 version so i could put it into pools for payouts without needing a wallet yet.


(best practices, you can use an old computer not hooked up to internet to get some quick easy addresses. you dont need to make a specific address for it to be secure.)

(i dont know about nxt or crypto note vanity generators)

Clever idea.
That makes a lot of sense to me.


Good to know.
That's actually exactly why I asked. I had a feeling ...

Thx for the explanation.


So if I put your ideas together ...
... and then imagine that this ("own hash algo") is the case for a new coin,
and we choose one of jasemoney's 58 addresses, and thus - the magic first letter would still be correct, so a sending wallet would accept that address to be valid ...

BUT: Wouldn't you then send to an address for which you have no private key?




Grrreat! Thanks a lot. Cool. So it does exist. Nice job!


But lots of coins are not in there. E.g. no DRK. For the reasons you, elbandi, have given, I guess?



So a truely universal ... hmmm ... mbranewalletgenerator would then have to collect those code pieces from the original sources, for such coins?