Vanitygen: How to easily generate vanity address - Mac OSX?

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Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on July 06, 2015, 04:26:37 PM

Check your PM. I generated 5 addresses for you starting with 1Nyau. Once you let me know you've got them, I'll delete the PM.

Please don't do this. Forum backups your PMs and sharing private key with others is not at all a good thing. I believe you know this, jonnybravo0311. Please use split-key generation when creating vanity addresses for others.

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Quote from: Possum577 on July 06, 2015, 01:00:16 AM

Mac OSX vs any other operating system has nothing to do with it. Here's a site for you -> http://bitcoinvanitygen.com/

Good luck.

DO NOT USE THAT SITE!!! Have you used that before recommending it Possum? They are a known scam. They stole 3 BTC from me and have been stealing from folks for a long time.

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Check your PM. I generated 5 addresses for you starting with 1Nyau. Once you let me know you've got them, I'll delete the PM.

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Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on July 06, 2015, 04:13:48 PM

Quote from: Nyau on July 06, 2015, 04:06:16 PM

Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on July 06, 2015, 03:57:52 PM

I've got no clue what's going on, then. All of the steps I laid out previously, I did on a brand new VM with OS X freshly installed. It was a completely clean install. Running the brew install script asked me for my password to ensure I was OK with what it was trying to do. Now, if I attempt to re-run that install script I get this:

Code:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
It appears Homebrew is already installed. If your intent is to reinstall you
should do the following before running this installer again:
rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup

LOL... tell you what... if you're not looking for some crazy long vanity address, I'll just generate it for you... probably could have had it done by now Tongue

Well.. I want 1Nyau case-sensitive but I don't think it's safe, because you will have my private key.. :/

I'm not going to wreck my reputation here by trying to scam you, or anyone else. I'll happily destroy the private key when I send the pair to you. Generating addresses that start with that combination take seconds to do. If you want me to generate a few for you, I'll PM you the public/private keys and then delete my PMs.

Completely up to you if you want.

Ok, I will trust you

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Quote from: Nyau on July 06, 2015, 04:06:16 PM

Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on July 06, 2015, 03:57:52 PM

I've got no clue what's going on, then. All of the steps I laid out previously, I did on a brand new VM with OS X freshly installed. It was a completely clean install. Running the brew install script asked me for my password to ensure I was OK with what it was trying to do. Now, if I attempt to re-run that install script I get this:

Code:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
It appears Homebrew is already installed. If your intent is to reinstall you
should do the following before running this installer again:
rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup

LOL... tell you what... if you're not looking for some crazy long vanity address, I'll just generate it for you... probably could have had it done by now Tongue

Well.. I want 1Nyau case-sensitive but I don't think it's safe, because you will have my private key.. :/

I'm not going to wreck my reputation here by trying to scam you, or anyone else. I'll happily destroy the private key when I send the pair to you. Generating addresses that start with that combination take seconds to do. If you want me to generate a few for you, I'll PM you the public/private keys and then delete my PMs.

Completely up to you if you want.

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Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on July 06, 2015, 03:57:52 PM

I've got no clue what's going on, then. All of the steps I laid out previously, I did on a brand new VM with OS X freshly installed. It was a completely clean install. Running the brew install script asked me for my password to ensure I was OK with what it was trying to do. Now, if I attempt to re-run that install script I get this:

Code:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
It appears Homebrew is already installed. If your intent is to reinstall you
should do the following before running this installer again:
rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup

LOL... tell you what... if you're not looking for some crazy long vanity address, I'll just generate it for you... probably could have had it done by now Tongue

Well.. I want 1Nyau case-sensitive but I don't think it's safe, because you will have my private key.. :/

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I've got no clue what's going on, then. All of the steps I laid out previously, I did on a brand new VM with OS X freshly installed. It was a completely clean install. Running the brew install script asked me for my password to ensure I was OK with what it was trying to do. Now, if I attempt to re-run that install script I get this:

Code:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
It appears Homebrew is already installed. If your intent is to reinstall you
should do the following before running this installer again:
rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup

LOL... tell you what... if you're not looking for some crazy long vanity address, I'll just generate it for you... probably could have had it done by now Tongue

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Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on July 06, 2015, 03:47:53 PM

That should return something to you... it's just a directory listing of the /usr/local/bin directory (where brew would get installed). For example, on mine:

Code:

ls /usr/local/bin | grep brew
brew

If nothing gets returned, then you don't have brew installed. I'm assuming this is your Mac, and you actually have administrator rights (you can put in your password to install software)... right?

Oh right, I got nothing back.. Yes, it's my mac and I can do everything

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That should return something to you... it's just a directory listing of the /usr/local/bin directory (where brew would get installed). For example, on mine:

Code:

ls /usr/local/bin | grep brew
brew

If nothing gets returned, then you don't have brew installed. I'm assuming this is your Mac, and you actually have administrator rights (you can put in your password to install software)... right?

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Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on July 06, 2015, 03:41:40 PM

Shut down the terminal window, then re-open it. If you installed brew - which it looks like you did - you should be able to use the "brew" command to install stuff. Let's see if you've actually got it...

Code:

ls /usr/local/bin | grep brew

What should this code do?

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Shut down the terminal window, then re-open it. If you installed brew - which it looks like you did - you should be able to use the "brew" command to install stuff. Let's see if you've actually got it...

Code:

ls /usr/local/bin | grep brew

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Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on July 06, 2015, 03:04:24 PM

Did you install home-brew?

From the terminal window:

Code:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Yes I did, even 3 times! Cheesy

I got this back:

Code:

==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/Library/...
/usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1
==> The following directories will be made group writable:
/usr/local/.
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/share
/usr/local/share/man
/usr/local/share/man/man8
==> The following directories will have their group set to admin:
/usr/local/.
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/share
/usr/local/share/man
/usr/local/share/man/man8

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Did you install home-brew?

From the terminal window:

Code:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

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Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on July 06, 2015, 02:22:31 PM

Now we use brew to install what we need:

Code:

brew install pcre

-bash: brew: command not found

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Quote from: Nyau on July 06, 2015, 01:45:23 PM

Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on July 06, 2015, 01:33:54 PM

Pretty sure a binary I create on my laptop won't work for you. Requirements around some libraries that aren't standard. I could certainly tell you how to compile and build it yourself if you want...

That should be good too, let's start

OK... the first thing you'll need to do is get the command line tools installed on your mac. Open up a terminal window and type:

Code:

xcode-select --install

This should start the process of getting you the tools you'll need.

Now that the command line tools are installed, you'll need some other libraries and packages that are not provided. I happen to like using homebrew for this. I used to use macports, but ran into some issues with their QT5 stuff. So, let's get homebrew. From that same terminal window:

Code:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Now we use brew to install what we need:

Code:

brew install pcre

Once that's done, you'll need to obtain the vanitygen code from git. In the same terminal window:

Code:

git clone https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen.git

Now, go into that directory:

Code:

cd vanitygen/

Build it:

Code:

make

You'll see a ton of warnings, but at the end of it, you'll have your very own vanitygen that you can use...

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Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on July 06, 2015, 01:33:54 PM

Pretty sure a binary I create on my laptop won't work for you. Requirements around some libraries that aren't standard. I could certainly tell you how to compile and build it yourself if you want...

That should be good too, let's start

I'm really glad there's someone who's helping! Wink

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Pretty sure a binary I create on my laptop won't work for you. Requirements around some libraries that aren't standard. I could certainly tell you how to compile and build it yourself if you want...

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Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on July 06, 2015, 11:01:06 AM

I have compiled and built the vanitygen code on OS X, and I use it (see the vanity BTC address in my profile... that was generated on my MBP using oclvanitygen).

Depending on what hardware you've got, you can either use the CPU version (vanitygen) or the GPU version (oclvanitygen). For example, I've got an nVidia GPU in my MBP, so I use oclvanitygen. Of course, this requires that I've also got the nVidia CUDA toolkit so it can compile the GPU-specific kernel...

Can you please send me your code or whatever I need to make vanity address? Cheesy

Quote from: Friki Verax on July 06, 2015, 10:16:10 AM

Quote from: Nyau on July 06, 2015, 09:29:14 AM

Quote from: Friki Verax on July 06, 2015, 09:05:13 AM

Quote from: Nyau on July 05, 2015, 11:53:42 AM

Quote from: Muhammed Zakir on July 05, 2015, 11:15:57 AM

Follow http://www.stanley-adams.co.uk/2013/12/custom-vanity-bitcoin-address/.

By the way, which part is hard for you?

Everything. I'm not coder and I don't understand it, so it's really hard for me even with step-by-step tut. Let's say I'm asking for someones ready to use binary..

-snip-

Can't you copy-paste those commands in terminal and click enter/return? Hope errors are not there.

Which version of OS X are you using?

Half of the commands are not working, that's it..

I have 10.9

Which all commands are not working? Didn't you follow those commands in the same order? Changing order may cause problem because of unmet dependencies. I maybe able to help you with this via TeamViewer or similar but more secure software. For this, you will have to trust me because you are giving access to your computer to an unknown person(me).

I will tell you once I get home, I don't know it from head..

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I have compiled and built the vanitygen code on OS X, and I use it (see the vanity BTC address in my profile... that was generated on my MBP using oclvanitygen).

Depending on what hardware you've got, you can either use the CPU version (vanitygen) or the GPU version (oclvanitygen). For example, I've got an nVidia GPU in my MBP, so I use oclvanitygen. Of course, this requires that I've also got the nVidia CUDA toolkit so it can compile the GPU-specific kernel...

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Quote from: Nyau on July 06, 2015, 09:29:14 AM

Quote from: Friki Verax on July 06, 2015, 09:05:13 AM

Quote from: Nyau on July 05, 2015, 11:53:42 AM

Quote from: Muhammed Zakir on July 05, 2015, 11:15:57 AM

Follow http://www.stanley-adams.co.uk/2013/12/custom-vanity-bitcoin-address/.

By the way, which part is hard for you?

Everything. I'm not coder and I don't understand it, so it's really hard for me even with step-by-step tut. Let's say I'm asking for someones ready to use binary..

-snip-

Can't you copy-paste those commands in terminal and click enter/return? Hope errors are not there.

Which version of OS X are you using?

Half of the commands are not working, that's it..

I have 10.9

Which all commands are not working? Didn't you follow those commands in the same order? Changing order may cause problem because of unmet dependencies. I maybe able to help you with this via TeamViewer or similar but more secure software. For this, you will have to trust me because you are giving access to your computer to an unknown person(me).

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