This is my new pet/toy project! It's a (mostly) ASCII screensaver, made for those who still don't get how insanely large 2^256 is and want to get a first-hand feel of the sheer size of the Bitcoin keyspace, in a somewhat fun way...
The Deep Space Vagabond will slowly crawl through the
2^256 keyspace for addresses with non-zero balances! OK, you probably have much better odds finding extraterrestrial life or winning the Powerball 5 times in a row than stumbling upon such an address, but hey, who knows? Why not see if you're the luckiest kid in the universe? And also, this is FREE!
Although there is no help file or documentation at this stage, it is extremely easy to use - most stuff is automatic: just watch and hold your breath...
Latest release: Version
1.475 for Win 2000/XP/Vista/7 (955KB, February 2013)
Download - VT Scan - SHA1: 3d05a6979ea6691c52b7461acf724a52beb18ed1!!A word of warning on downloading Windows executables!!It's highly recommended not to blindly download random executables from the WWW.
I do guarantee that this app does no malicious things, but my recommendation for optimal security on Windows is to either run new executables in a sandbox (such as Sandboxie) or virtual machine or, for the technically-oriented, compile them from the source code when available.
Source code:
After carefully considering whether to open source it or not, I have decided to only make the source code to the
initial Python-based (command-line) prototype freely available to all.
However, the full source code to the
current version is available on donation only (amount TBD).
Installation: (Windows-only for now)
Just download and launch. It should run out of the box, there are no particular runtime requirements and no admin rights are needed.
Credits:
Design and coding: flatfly
Startup screen logo: turbomilk
Uses some features of vanitygen by samr7 and curl by Dirk Paehl.
Fetches balance data from the blockchain.info API or a local bitcoind + ABE installation.
