Want a vanity address?

[Coinabul]

Ah, OK.  My cheap XFX 6770 gets around 12-13 Mh/s with oclvanitygen for your reference.

Well, now I feel bad.


Thanks

[LuaKT]

Coinabul how many hashes/second are you getting?

Floating around 100 Kkey/s

You want to use oclvanitygen instead to use the GPU. I get 16Mkey/s with a Gtx 560ti.

Or you already know this and are limited by hardware.

[bg002h]

Ah, OK.  My cheap XFX 6770 gets around 12-13 Mkey/s with oclvanitygen for your reference.

Wow...I haven't owned a real computer for almost 10 years...just laptops and dinky things. I can't wait until I have both the time and money to build my own systems again.

[Coinabul]

Coinabul how many hashes/second are you getting?

Floating around 100 Kkey/s

You want to use oclvanitygen instead to use the GPU. I get 16Mkey/s with a Gtx 560ti.

Or you already know this and are limited by hardware.

How?

[LuaKT]

Coinabul how many hashes/second are you getting?

Floating around 100 Kkey/s

You want to use oclvanitygen instead to use the GPU. I get 16Mkey/s with a Gtx 560ti.

Or you already know this and are limited by hardware.

How?

I'm assuming you compiled from here https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen so oclvanitygen should have been built?

[stevegee58]

There are Windows-built binaries for oclvanitygen floating around the interwebs somewhere.

[Coinabul]

Coinabul how many hashes/second are you getting?

Floating around 100 Kkey/s

You want to use oclvanitygen instead to use the GPU. I get 16Mkey/s with a Gtx 560ti.

Or you already know this and are limited by hardware.

How?

I'm assuming you compiled from here https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen so oclvanitygen should have been built?

Right, but I built it for mac. Is there a command or flag to make oclvanitygen work?

[Coinabul]

Coinabul how many hashes/second are you getting?

Floating around 100 Kkey/s

You want to use oclvanitygen instead to use the GPU. I get 16Mkey/s with a Gtx 560ti.

Or you already know this and are limited by hardware.

How?

I'm assuming you compiled from here https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen so oclvanitygen should have been built?

Right, but I built it for mac. Is there a command or flag to make oclvanitygen work?

Ahh, I built ocl separately. That has boosted it up to 200kkey/s

[stevegee58]

Right, but I built it for mac. Is there a command or flag to make oclvanitygen work?

If you have an OpenCL GPU you can use oclvanitygen by adding -d 0 to the command line to use GPU #0 (or whatever)

I don't know anything about Macs.

[teflone]

Thank you!!!!

[BkkCoins]

I just updated my vanitygen to 0.19 so I could try the new third-party mode. It works and I thought I'd post how I used it here. It would be much safer for those wanting to make vanity addresses for others. And it's fairly easy to do.

1. Client who wants vanity goes to bitaddress.org and generates an address/key pair. Save this safely for later. Plug private key into wallet details tab and see that a "hex format public key" is shown on two lines. Send those two lines of hex to the "guy doing vanity gen".

2. Vanity gen guy starts oclvanitygen with -P option and pastes in the given hex key (one line each combining into one long key, it can't handle the line break). Generate the addresses and send to the client. These addresses have only a "partial key" and aren't usable alone.

(note, I found it easier to put the hex key in a file and use a cmd like " oclvanitygen -d 0 -P `cat keyfile` 1Love " which worked fine and allows for automating the process)

3. Client has to plug the partial key and the original key he saved above into keyconv program to give him the full private key. A windows binary of this utility is available on the vanitygen github but for other OS it's a bit of a problem if the client can't compile easily.

eg.
keyconv -c <originalkey> <partialkey>
(outputs new vanity address and full key)

I don't think the client needs the original key after this - as he has a new vanity address/key that works standalone - unless maybe to request more addresses safely.

I requested a partial key sum function on bitaddress.org so this last step could be dead easy too. We'll see.

[teflone]

What would be a typical command line to do this myself?  Im about to tackle this...

I dont need third party, Im going to try for an insanely long vanity addy.. 

Something like 1Sitonmyface34dasfASDFa34

[BkkCoins]

What would be a typical command line to do this myself?  Im about to tackle this...

I dont need third party, Im going to try for an insanely long vanity addy..  

Something like 1Sitonmyface34dasfASDFa34

For CPU:
vanitygen 1Sitonmyface

But that would take forever. Well, ok just 258759000 years on my mahcine.

For GPU:
oclvanitygen -d 0 1Sitonmyface

Ah, much better, only 2819089 years.

The -d 0 option on oclvanitygen just tells it to use the first GPU device.
You can use -i if you don't care about case sensitive.

oclvanitygen -id 0 1Sitonmyface

Which estimates 5678 years. Much more doable.

All these time estimates are based on 50% chance of finding.

[teflone]

What would be a typical command line to do this myself?  Im about to tackle this...

I dont need third party, Im going to try for an insanely long vanity addy.. 

Something like 1Sitonmyface34dasfASDFa34

For CPU:
vanitygen 1Sitonmyface

But that would take forever. Well, ok just 258759000 years on my mahcine.

For GPU:
oclvanitygen -d 0 1Sitonmyface

Ah, much better, only 2819089 years.

The -d 0 option on oclvanitygen just tells it to use the first GPU device.
You can use -i if you don't care about case sensitive.

oclvanitygen -id 0 1Sitonmyface

Which estimates 5678 years. Much more doable.

All these time estimates are based on 50% chance of finding.

Holy shit..    what GPU is that based off.. I got a 5870 here in slot 0..

This is hilarious..

[BkkCoins]

Holy shit..    what GPU is that based off.. I got a 5870 here in slot 0..

This is hilarious..

I have 3x 5830s here. But this rate was with my mining still going. So it was quoting me about 4 Mkeys/s and when I shutdown mining I can get around 22 Mkeys/s. So factor in about 5x faster if you dedicate the GPU.

ie. on 3 GPU miner dedicated you get this down to 5678 / 5 / 3 = 378 years.

The character length is super critical. Even cutting off one char makes a big impact.

So oclvanitygen -id 0 1Sitonme

quotes me  only 3.3 days.

[teflone]

Holy shit..    what GPU is that based off.. I got a 5870 here in slot 0..

This is hilarious..

I have 3x 5830s here. But this rate was with my mining still going. So it was quoting me about 4 Mkeys/s and when I shutdown mining I can get around 22 Mkeys/s. So factor in about 5x faster if you dedicate the GPU.

ie. on 3 GPU miner dedicated you get this down to 5678 / 5 / 3 = 378 years.

The character length is super critical. Even cutting off one char makes a big impact.

So oclvanitygen -id 0 1Sitonme

quotes me  only 3.3 days.

whoa.. I dont even know where to start.. 

What am I doing?  compiling a C code file ?   

I need supporting programs right ?

[BkkCoins]

whoa.. I dont even know where to start..  

What am I doing?  compiling a C code file ?    

I need supporting programs right ?

First, what OS are you using? For Windows there is binaries on the vanitygen github so it should be pretty easy to download and just use. For Linux or OSX you'd have to compile I believe. I just did that again after 9 months when I first did it and it's fairly easy/painless.


Go here,
https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen/downloads

For Linux/OSX click Download as Tar.gz
For Windows binaries click the vanitygen-0.19-win.zip link.

[teflone]

whoa.. I dont even know where to start..  

What am I doing?  compiling a C code file ?    

I need supporting programs right ?

First, what OS are you using? For Windows there is binaries on the vanitygen github so it should be pretty easy to download and just use. For Linux or OSX you'd have to compile I believe. I just did that again after 9 months when I first did it and it's fairly easy/painless.


Go here,
https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen/downloads

For Linux/OSX click Download as Tar.gz
For Windows binaries click the vanitygen-0.19-win.zip link.

Thanks Bkkcoins, I was confused, Im on win 7 64..   

Going to try this now

[BkkCoins]

Thanks Bkkcoins, I was confused, Im on win 7 64..    

Going to try this now

Use the 64 bit exe in that zip.
First time you run the exe it will compile an OpenCL "kernel" and download it to the GPU to run. But after that it should have saved the file so that further runs will just download it and go. So first time takes a while.

[dunand]

Im going to try for an insanely long vanity addy..  

Something like 1Sitonmyface34dasfASDFa34

You should try something like 1PZjfkLZBT7Q3UFmyEWH8QtuzTMi3MUiBj. If you succeed you have a big reward.