Topic: Vanity Adresses, where can I find them (Read 1486 times)

 Offer rescinded.

Well mate, maybe its you who cant explain shit and needs to come cry a bit in the topic

 This idiot is just taking the piss.  Thanks for wasting my time Richard.

I was reading this claims and didn't see any proof there that they lost anything because of bitcoinvanitygen.com. This could be users fault in computer security especially when this site generated over 12000 addresses and there are like 4 complaints i found?
I will remove my sig after i will see proof, because until now im happy using address from them since over a year.

You need to generate your own using a vanity address generator. 

If you are on a linux system, or cared to install Ubuntu along side your current OS, you could use this step by step guide created by nonnakip to generate your own vanity address.

https://nastyfans.org/download/oclvanitygen.txt

Don't use this website I recently imported a private key to my wallet and sent some Bitcoins to it but after one confirm they got moved to another address.

There is a "mining pool" for vanity addresses at https://vanitypool.appspot.com/. They use split key generation and it volunteers will find the vanity address and submit it to the site. When someone finds your vanity address, you will need to pay them a fee.

  It doesn't get any cheaper than free... are you not interested in a vanity address or are you going it alone?
 

Bitaddress.org provides only the option to generate private key, paper wallet, keys for split key vanity etc. They do not generate the vanity themselves as it is very resource intensive.

It's something you really should do yourself if you need one.  I also don't like to store a ton on vanity I feel they are kinda a gimmick.

I think a plain address where I focus on security makes me sleep better.  But if you need a vanity address really look into GPU to find it yourse.

bitcoinvanitygen.com isnt safe as there are number of users claimed that the address they generate from that site got hacked as you dont have the sole control over your private keys

May be try https://www.bitaddress.org/ this might help you! 

That's an excellent answer Shorena.

BitcoinStriker: Post your public key and I'll run my computer on it for a few hours and see what I can get for you. 

Safety first, if you hire someone use split key generation. A quick example how it works. Obviously the below key should not be used, because it is now compromised. Its just an example.

You go to e.g. bitaddress.org, download (!) the site and open it locally (!). Select the Vanity Wallet option and click generate.

It will show you a public key like this: 0460CF66AB508CA8D57A4CDA5D9846BA6005647E6DAAB93C776F175A5EEE37D50636CA12312BB6F DCC04A759EB3FC18D43232ED6DBF85389C0BC2AB6C6F827830C
and a part private key like this: E2A908CA171D4A3CD4B81EE35EBD20624428E3A6CE2846BC484973811E8C2CDE

You keep your part of the private key somewhere safe and do not show it to anyone.

You give the public key to the person that will create your vanity address. At this point you might get an escrow involved to secure the funds if there are trust issues.

The person will also need the prefix you want, e.g. 1test.

They run their vanitygen GPU magic... 1test only takes a few seconds on my GPU so I just did it.

You would get the following data returned.


Notice how the private key part is in a different format. Again open your local copy of bitaddress.org and go to wallet details. Enter the private key, click the button and it will show you the private key in hex format. In this example its 00CE26771E07A19C4393B7978BF3729B94DE799531EDC089B76E7623E8EE1665

Now you go back to Vanity Wallet. Enter your part private key in the first field.

E2A908CA171D4A3CD4B81EE35EBD20624428E3A6CE2846BC484973811E8C2CDE

and the part you bought in the second field

00CE26771E07A19C4393B7978BF3729B94DE799531EDC089B76E7623E8EE1665

Click the button and it will show you the address:
1testdYwC4vQikygV7XBkQyG1R6emwFh3

the public key (not important) and the private key in WIF

5KYTtEGWihmKdvjvwiPThkmaWt11twrkPrnz2oEdFg3Drstutry

You make sure that no one sees this private key and import it into your favorite wallet. The wallet might need to rescan the blockchain or something like that, but there will no funds on it.

Contact the escrow to release the funds.

...

Profit.

Talking about profit, let me know which prefix you need and whether or not it should be case sensetive. Keep in mind that the time needed increases exponentially for each symbol. E.g. 7 symbols with case would take ~28 days (with bad luck even longer), 6 symbols w/ case would take ~12 hours.

Best way is to have a computer with decent GPU.  GPU kills it compared to CPU on getting these vanity address.  You can purchase them.... but I like to make as I don't trust others on it.

But it all depends on how long and what you are wanting.  Some will never happen if to long or to specific.  Others you can do fairly easy.

My PC is wayy slow to generate vanity adresses, but I will try it anyway. How can I use the programs?

Kindly remove that 2nd link cuz there were many bad reports and feedbacks claiming they lost bitcoins using the vanity bitcoin address generated on that site. That's totally not recommended

Two more good links for vanity address generation and buying. Buying vanity address is always risky, so be careful.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/vanitygen-vanity-bitcoin-address-generatorminer-v022-25804
https://bitcoinvanitygen.com/

The easiest way would be to google. There is a wiki site what describes how to create vanity addresses
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen

How about there is google you know kidding Well this thread might help you https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/vanitygen-vanity-bitcoin-address-generatorminer-v022-25804 and also maybe this one might help too https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/vanity-pool-vanity-address-generator-pool-84569 Hope those will help