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Topic: Vanity Pool - vanity address generator pool - page 24. (Read 148044 times)

hero member
Activity: 896
Merit: 1000
November 22, 2012, 02:50:26 PM
At least oclvanityminer doesn't recognize it (it isn't in the list of minable adresses it dumps when I use it).

http://fizzisist.com/mining-value/api/vanitypool-value doesn't seem to like it (in fact I was made aware of this address pattern when I found out that vanitypool-value was not available anymore).
sr. member
Activity: 444
Merit: 313
November 22, 2012, 02:45:57 PM
Is it just me or is it impossible to find the NPhaux Namecoin address that is currently setting the mining ratio to 7812? Is an address starting with NP invalid for namecoin?

Hmm, I don't see why not. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_address_prefixes appears to match up, but then again, this is the first non-Bitcoin address. It could be that my Pool is not handling it properly, or perhaps the miner defaults to mining addresses with a prefix of 1.
sr. member
Activity: 342
Merit: 250
November 22, 2012, 02:41:21 PM
Is it just me or is it impossible to find the NPhaux Namecoin address that is currently setting the mining ratio to 7812? Is an address starting with NP invalid for namecoin?
sr. member
Activity: 444
Merit: 313
November 08, 2012, 04:58:29 AM
Bitcoin Friday update!

https://vanitypool.appspot.com/

Special promotion for the Bitcoin Friday - 1% fee, new address pricing model (get your vanity address for as low as 0.01BTC), some other updates. Mine those addresses while they are hot!;)
sr. member
Activity: 444
Merit: 313
November 04, 2012, 08:27:13 AM
Cool to see it's viable. Thanks for your hard work!

EDIT: I wouldn't mind a fee to help paying for site operation.

Well, the site has a donation address and a fee is taken from each solved work. If you want to help the website grow, you can either donate or place some orders for a vanity address or a couple;).

I don't expect the site to be making much of a profit for awhile, but I'll continue to improve it slowly in my spare time based on feedback. On the plus side, hosting everything on the cloud makes my startup and operation costs low for now...
donator
Activity: 2772
Merit: 1019
November 04, 2012, 07:21:31 AM
Hey guys, I'm still following what's happening here and I still very much like vanitypool.

One question: Would it be technically feasable to reduce the dependance on luck by accepting solutions to "lower-difficulty" sub-patterns (for example by omitting the last character) and then, once one of these solutions also matches the "real pattern", distribute the reward amongst the providers of these lower-difficulty solutions.

I'm sure you've pondered this, right?

It would probably make me contribute again. Currently, there's just too much luck involved for me.

Yes, it is possible, but at the moment I don't have the time to implement it, not to mention that it could potentially drive up the costs of running the website a bit. Since I'm hosting this on Google App Engine, every read/write operation needs to be paid for. I tried implementing a pool on GAE that was keeping track of shares and my free quota didn't last very long with one miner. When the Pool will start generating a viable traffic I will look into implementing this solution.

For now I'm looking into more fair work pricing, so that smaller addresses that don't take too long to mine would be more encouraged.

Cool to see it's viable. Thanks for your hard work!

EDIT: I wouldn't mind a fee to help paying for site operation.
sr. member
Activity: 444
Merit: 313
November 04, 2012, 06:22:54 AM
Hey guys, I'm still following what's happening here and I still very much like vanitypool.

One question: Would it be technically feasable to reduce the dependance on luck by accepting solutions to "lower-difficulty" sub-patterns (for example by omitting the last character) and then, once one of these solutions also matches the "real pattern", distribute the reward amongst the providers of these lower-difficulty solutions.

I'm sure you've pondered this, right?

It would probably make me contribute again. Currently, there's just too much luck involved for me.

Yes, it is possible, but at the moment I don't have the time to implement it, not to mention that it could potentially drive up the costs of running the website a bit. Since I'm hosting this on Google App Engine, every read/write operation needs to be paid for. I tried implementing a pool on GAE that was keeping track of shares and my free quota didn't last very long with one miner. When the Pool will start generating a viable traffic I will look into implementing this solution.

For now I'm looking into more fair work pricing, so that smaller addresses that don't take too long to mine would be more encouraged.
donator
Activity: 2772
Merit: 1019
November 04, 2012, 05:44:41 AM
Hey guys, I'm still following what's happening here and I still very much like vanitypool.

One question: Would it be technically feasable to reduce the dependance on luck by accepting solutions to "lower-difficulty" sub-patterns (for example by omitting the last character) and then, once one of these solutions also matches the "real pattern", distribute the reward amongst the providers of these lower-difficulty solutions.

I'm sure you've pondered this, right?

It would probably make me contribute again. Currently, there's just too much luck involved for me.
sr. member
Activity: 444
Merit: 313
November 02, 2012, 01:26:22 PM
I'm glad everything is working fine for you now and congratulations on the difficult address!

I've been adding new features to the next update of the Vanity Pool. I will launch it on Bitcoin Friday (9th of November), or a bit before that along with some bonus for the day for the miners. The following day the bonus will be gone, but the changes will stay Wink.
donator
Activity: 3136
Merit: 1167
November 02, 2012, 05:53:04 AM
Many thanks, it's now working fine & I have the sum, sorry it was late at night when I tried before & for some reason I had an incorrect 2nd private key - now I rechecked & it's all fine, my apologies for the extra work & my thanks to the solvers - especially whoever just solved the hardest to date with 9 chars after the initial 1 & claimed the highest bounty paid out so far (though it wasn't much considering the difficulty unless one was very lucky).

1ELiZABETH for 3.18 btc before commission ---> 2.544 btc.
sr. member
Activity: 444
Merit: 313
November 02, 2012, 05:43:52 AM
it doesn't go to a blank page now but instead reports: Private keys are invalid

Hmm, that is strange. I've added more clearer error message displays to the test suite to indicate which private key would be invalid. I spent some time analysing the code, and it appears to be working fine. It takes private keys from 1 to FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364140, and the error you experienced is only displayed if the key is bigger than the latter number, or smaller than 1. In other words, it shouldn't be happening, as I've tried out the solution in the testing suite (it works fine), and I reckon you have also previously used your private key with success. If the testing suite acts up still, let me know which key is to blame - the solution, or yours (it will be displayed).

Alternatively, you can use https://www.bitaddress.org/ , as its Vanity Address option uses the additive method.
donator
Activity: 3136
Merit: 1167
November 01, 2012, 07:16:00 PM
it doesn't go to a blank page now but instead reports: Private keys are invalid
sr. member
Activity: 444
Merit: 313
November 01, 2012, 05:18:22 PM
Nope, it just goes to a blank page atm like it's stuck or something

Hmm, I have updated the testing site to properly pad public keys. I hope that will solve your problem as well.
donator
Activity: 3136
Merit: 1167
November 01, 2012, 04:03:08 PM
Nope, it just goes to a blank page atm like it's stuck or something

Wow, that's the most annoying sig I've seen. Welcome to /ignore.


LOL - BFL paid me to pimp them in my sig, I hoped to get a balance between getting attention for them & being annoying, obviously it's a fine line & I'm sorry that you've found it annoying, as it happens their last month's rental of my sig space ran out a few days ago & as I don't post every day on the forums as they require I doubt that they will offer to pay me to continue advertising for them so I expect that the sig will revert to something less in your face very soon, I am a big fan of BFL btw which is why I was happy to promote them.
legendary
Activity: 3878
Merit: 1193
November 01, 2012, 01:25:45 PM
Nope, it just goes to a blank page atm like it's stuck or something

Wow, that's the most annoying sig I've seen. Welcome to /ignore.
donator
Activity: 3136
Merit: 1167
November 01, 2012, 10:36:59 AM
Ah thanks, but how can I add the 2 private keys together to get the one for 1PepsiCosowjScTRFjSUvpgnEeEfC5Xbi

Edit - Ah I see that you'll said you would fix that on your site, np & no rush, I'll do it then

I think that if you add the private keys, it should work fine. The problem only appears to affect that public key at the moment. If you combine the private keys, you should get a proper private key you can import and so forth.

Nope, it just goes to a blank page atm like it's stuck or something
sr. member
Activity: 444
Merit: 313
November 01, 2012, 10:26:34 AM
Ah thanks, but how can I add the 2 private keys together to get the one for 1PepsiCosowjScTRFjSUvpgnEeEfC5Xbi

Edit - Ah I see that you'll said you would fix that on your site, np & no rush, I'll do it then

I think that if you add the private keys, it should work fine. The problem only appears to affect that public key at the moment. If you combine the private keys, you should get a proper private key you can import and so forth.
donator
Activity: 3136
Merit: 1167
November 01, 2012, 10:20:33 AM
Ah thanks, but how can I add the 2 private keys together to get the one for 1PepsiCosowjScTRFjSUvpgnEeEfC5Xbi

Edit - Ah I see that you'll said you would fix that on your site, np & no rush, I'll do it then
sr. member
Activity: 444
Merit: 313
November 01, 2012, 08:06:18 AM
opps, sorry I messed up, they are all fine - my mistake, just the 1PepsiCo one that is shown solved but the solution doesn't work, could you reenter it to be solved again, many thanks.

Actually, the solution works, it's just that my GoBitTest website appears to have some problems with it. Given the private key:
4876652DE4D45277999C7C02C5E8EB0CEF7A512CB4AE7EF51A85ED2D1996A629

it prints:
049322AA20CA83131F635C7ACBB05484E3FEDEAC699DF6FF34AEFDFEFEF4EEFFAEC10A698CC2DF6 DD9A9B95175C7C4416132F03771C21EC9DFF824FA5F7630B5

Using https://www.bitaddress.org/ we get:
049322AA20CA83131F635C7ACBB05484E3FEDEAC699DF6FF34AEFDFEFEF4EEFFAE00C10A698CC2DF6DD9A9B95175C7C4416132F03771C21EC9DFF824FA5F7630B5

So my test suite doesn't print that first zero byte for one of the points. I will look into fixing it soon.

Adding your public key, we get the solution of:
1PepsiCosowjScTRFjSUvpgnEeEfC5Xbi

Sorry about the inconvenience.
donator
Activity: 3136
Merit: 1167
November 01, 2012, 07:42:37 AM
opps, sorry I messed up, they are all fine - my mistake, just the 1PepsiCo one that is shown solved but the solution doesn't work, could you reenter it to be solved again, many thanks.
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