Want a vanity address?

[BkkCoins]

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.

Huh? Looks like a zero balance to me.
https://blockchain.info/address/1PZjfkLZBT7Q3UFmyEWH8QtuzTMi3MUiBj

[MagicalTux]

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.

Closest I got here are 1PzjfKTq4zf4eWRvirYJBucrWU6uaZwh9m and 1PZJfKwXxdPjVKEhMx4UThiMtL5GSrCtH

[teflone]

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.

hahhaa..

how much is in that one ?



Actually, I cant figure out the arguments at all..  Im lost..

Where do I enter my private key to generate an address off of ?

Im a pure newb when it comes to this stuff

Plus im a little distracted by the Nasa live Curiosity feed..  Neat stuff

[BkkCoins]

Where do I enter my private key to generate an address off of ?

You don't. Each new address also has a new private key. Start with a simple example to see you have done it right,

For CPU: vanitygen64 1Love
For GPU: oclvanitygen -d 0 1Love

That should spit out an address/key pair in a few seconds typically. If it works then you can try longer ones and other options.

You only supply a "hex public key" as input when using -P to generate a partial key for a third party.

[teflone]

Where do I enter my private key to generate an address off of ?

You don't. Each new address also has a new private key. Start with a simple example to see you have done it right,

For CPU: vanitygen64 1Love
For GPU: oclvanitygen -d 0 1Love

That should spit out an address/key pair in a few seconds typically. If it works then you can try longer ones and other options.

You only supply a "hex public key" as input when using -P to generate a partial key for a third party.

AWESOME!

That took about 2 seconds..    1Love..  lmao..

Im going to have fun with this..

Thanks brother, I owe you..

[BkkCoins]

Mai pen rai

[teflone]

hmmmm... 1 love worked fine...


But trying 1Teflon in place of 1Love

gives and error on the "L" in Teflon

[BkkCoins]

hmmmm... 1 love worked fine...


But trying 1Teflon in place of 1Love

gives and error on the "L" in Teflon

Yup. BTC addresses can't contain a lower case "l". And a few other letters too.
I guess you'll have to use 1TefLon.

[teflone]

hmmmm... 1 love worked fine...


But trying 1Teflon in place of 1Love

gives and error on the "L" in Teflon

Yup. BTC addresses can't contain a lower case "l". And a few other letters too.
I guess you'll have to use 1TefLon.

ohhhhhhhh.. wow.. Im surprised I never knew that..

Fyi, im getting 14 m keys while mining on the card too..

Thanks brother

[MagicalTux]

hmmmm... 1 love worked fine...

Got a few ones here too:

https://mtgox.com/api/2/money/bitcoin/vanity_lookup?addr=1love

[BkkCoins]

hmmmm... 1 love worked fine...


But trying 1Teflon in place of 1Love

gives and error on the "L" in Teflon

Yup. BTC addresses can't contain a lower case "l". And a few other letters too.
I guess you'll have to use 1TefLon.

ohhhhhhhh.. wow.. Im surprised I never knew that..

Fyi, im getting 14 m keys while mining on the card too..

Thanks brother

But once you have an address you can use firstbits.com for a shortened version and it allows using wrong case. I just checked and 1teflon isn't used by anyone yet so if you send a few cents to yourself on that address then you'll own 1teflon.

1Love - ya, lots of them out there. 4 chars is pretty easy to generate quickly.

[teflone]

hmmmm... 1 love worked fine...


But trying 1Teflon in place of 1Love

gives and error on the "L" in Teflon

Yup. BTC addresses can't contain a lower case "l". And a few other letters too.
I guess you'll have to use 1TefLon.

ohhhhhhhh.. wow.. Im surprised I never knew that..

Fyi, im getting 14 m keys while mining on the card too..

Thanks brother

But once you have an address you can use firstbits.com for a shortened version and it allows using wrong case. I just checked and 1teflon isn't used by anyone yet so if you send a few cents to yourself on that address then you'll own 1teflon.

1Love - ya, lots of them out there. 4 chars is pretty easy to generate quickly.

question.. what if my computer crashes after I find it..   my setup is unstable..  and I have to goto sleep eventually..  got a 12 hour wait it says..

Can it stash the key and address to the HD.. ? to later retrieve

[BkkCoins]

question.. what if my computer crashes after I find it..   my setup is unstable..  and I have to goto sleep eventually..  got a 12 hour wait it says..

Can it stash the key and address to the HD.. ? to later retrieve

Now I haven't used Windows for years but I do believe it supports redirecting output to a file.

eg.
oclvanitygen -d0 1Love >>vanity.txt

should write the result to that file. I used >> so that result is appended rather than overwrite the file.

If you add the -k option it will keep searching for multiple addresses.

[rjk]

Vanitygen supports file output without any commandline hacks - just use -o file.txt and it will write to a file. If you use the -i arg, it will be case-insensitive, and -k will keep generated results and keep running to find more. By default, it stops after finding one match.

[teflone]

Got my new 1 TefLon addy.. 

Wish I knew how long it took..

its estimate was 12 hours..

Thanks for all the help guys!