What's the easiest way to generate FTC and CHN/CNC addresses without downloading/compiling each client?
Dig thru liteaddress.org source and find how the scrypt addresses are generated -- then --
Dig thru litecoin-qt source and find where the addresses generation source is stored -- then --
The other clients are exact copies of litecoin, so just find the same exact section of code in those clients..
too bad it's not as easy as bitcoin:
echo -n "random data" |sha256sum
Actually, now that I think of it -- couldn't you use a litecoin address as a FTC or CNC address?
Sort of. You can have the same private key, which would have a different public address for each altcoin.
OK, lets put all this aside (No even going to go into the errors in all this)..Here is the way to use vanitygen to make address for whatever cryptocoin you want:
Simply use the -X option.
For example:
CNC has an address version of 28
Code:
robert@vm:~/vanitygen$ ./vanitygen -X 28 C
Difficulty: 1
Pattern: C
Address: CTNshY9gtui1sCRShSmaVhmDoqq2HMPoDb
Privkey: 6EffGbeyPmkm4L4kCFWtZwzMrHef8VnFAGPEFuJPYp5igPHbuTL
Code:
robert@vm:~/vanitygen$ ./vanitygen -X 28 CHina
Difficulty: 4553521
Pattern: CHina
Address: CHinayQjyJpxKiTRijbf1SQpjCnyGy2pdD
Privkey: 6EsXZUxKwpRE7LSZ61emBYCw1S247w3Fh6Lww8ubucQA2jiVnsH
FTC address version is 14
Code:
robert@vm:~/vanitygen$ ./vanitygen -X 14 6ftc
Difficulty: 78508
Pattern: 6ftc
Address: 6ftccqkRpUaSVMMyqnJ3mYaJoH3EW2Pcmx
Privkey: 5mA3Cj8wAWFGJ6tPUPTzb9Rr7Q9jmBEGNYF5B2MbXuwZhq3oftq
Thanks for sharing this information dreamwatcher.
You said that you were not going to go into the errors in all of those, I was wondering what errors you were referring to. Is it incorrect to say that you cannot use the same private key (64 character hexadecimal format) for any altcoin? I understand that the WIF and WIF compressed formats will be different for each, which is what is listed as "Privkey" by vanitygen.
