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steelboy

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Quote from: J35st3r on August 05, 2013, 05:05:14 PM

Quote from: steelboy on August 05, 2013, 04:50:03 PM

Is there a way to get people with faster computers to do it for me for money or does that mean they will get my private key?

Google is your friend steelboy (or DuckDuckGo if google is not your friend) ...

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen answers both your questions (yes and yes, plus the speeds) and provides links.

Good luck, and be careful with those private keys, they are generated in plaintext so be sure your Mac is clean, and you'll need to import them into a wallet before you can use them.

I did check that page but it's pretty complicated. I went to the github page and downloaded the zip file. The folder is full of files with crazy extensions. Very confused.

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Quote from: steelboy on August 05, 2013, 04:50:03 PM

Is there a way to get people with faster computers to do it for me for money or does that mean they will get my private key?

Google is your friend steelboy (or DuckDuckGo if google is not your friend) ...

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen answers both your questions (yes and yes, plus the speeds) and provides links.

Good luck, and be careful with those private keys, they are generated in plaintext so be sure your Mac is clean, and you'll need to import them into a wallet before you can use them.

steelboy

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Also, can it be done on a mac?

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Quote from: J35st3r on August 05, 2013, 04:37:22 PM

Download a copy of vanitygen and try it out.

On a (pretty slow) laptop CPU ...

# vanitygen.exe 1xxxxxxx
Difficulty: 51529903411245
[82.48 Kkey/s][total 194304][Prob 0.0%][50% in 13.7y]

That's slow. GPU will go a lot faster (oclvanitygen.exe), but not on my laptop, so try it yourself.

With one less 'x' ...
# vanitygen.exe 1xxxxxx
Difficulty: 888446610538
[75.97 Kkey/s][total 243968][Prob 0.0%][50% in 93.8d]

And if you don't care about the case ...
# vanitygen.exe -i 1xxxxxx
Difficulty: 14102327151
[78.83 Kkey/s][total 245760][Prob 0.0%][50% in 1.4d]

Looking better

13.7 years. Grin

I don't think i can wait that long.

I'll look at DLing vanitygen now. Is there a way to get people with faster computers to do it for me for money or does that mean they will get my private key?

J35st3r

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Download a copy of vanitygen and try it out.

On a (pretty slow) laptop CPU ...

# vanitygen.exe 1xxxxxxx
Difficulty: 51529903411245
[82.48 Kkey/s][total 194304][Prob 0.0%][50% in 13.7y]

That's slow. GPU will go a lot faster (oclvanitygen.exe), but not on my laptop, so try it yourself.

With one less 'x' ...
# vanitygen.exe 1xxxxxx
Difficulty: 888446610538
[75.97 Kkey/s][total 243968][Prob 0.0%][50% in 93.8d]

And if you don't care about the case ...
# vanitygen.exe -i 1xxxxxx
Difficulty: 14102327151
[78.83 Kkey/s][total 245760][Prob 0.0%][50% in 1.4d]

Looking better

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1 million dollars

steelboy

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I think i unerstand the concept of vanity addresses but I still am not sure on how long it will take and how much it will cost

Lets say i want 1xxxxxxx

Any ideas? (Ballpark figure is ok)

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