Topic: Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator/miner [v0.22] - page 97. (Read 1153383 times)

I use the version that has compressed key support, I think 0.22, for 32 bit windows. The link is somewhere here.

Here it is:
https://github.com/downloads/samr7/vanitygen/vanitygen-0.22-win.zip

Here is another one:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/57535575/vanitygen-win32-bin.zip

From this message on this thread: (page 63)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2296814

The last few pages have the lifeboat version that works with modern GPUs.

I use the second one.

 
As far as I know there is no longer a single driving force for this project. OP has been silent for quite a while.
I did some work on it, but that was just to enhance my knowledge on ECDSA and coin address generation in general.
My Dev-Env. does not support OCL and since it is tuned to my own linux system it would need work to make it more general.

I'm afraid all of the repo's out there are a bit fragmented.

Yes I am aware of how it works, I am just wondering where the "latest" repo is. (with support for compressed keys etc)

And if possible I would like some binaries... but not a requirement.

In a nutshell the standard method
Step 5 can be omitted when searching for a match at the start of the code. Since these 4 bytes only affect the last portion of the BTC-address.
The checksum 4 bytes are padded zero's. That's why a found key and a actual generated key differ at the end.
It does save a lot of hashing time :-)

In a nutshell the secure generation for third party method
Step 11) requires the network identity code (for the coin address generation), but also a private code(! for the WIF generation) The relation with the older coins is that private code is network code + 128.
Since there are more crypto-coins than could fit the equation this (network code +128) is now not always valid, depending on your target coin.

In order to make this SW work for most of the crypto-coins a new inline key needs to be added where the private code can be overruled if it not equal to (network code +128)
both in the generator and keyconf function.

The functionality of the SW has not changed since the OP opened this thread, it's just that a couple of crypto-coins have been added.

I'm sorry, but I don't have windows binaries in my repo.

I'm reeeeally sorry for giving up my epic quest of searching various keywords on this thread / clicking through the pages...

But if someone could make a new post that actually updates the OP with the latest news (I mean, this thread's OP makes no mention of all the functionality you guys are speaking of) on vanitygen, I'd appreciate it much more...

I am looking for a compiled version for Windows 7 64bit that a trusted member of the community has up on github or something... or a link to a well known repository...

that supports compressed addresses with oclvanitygen.

If there's any wiki-type page with all the necessary info on vanitygen and the latest patches / versions... I'd appreciate it. Thanks, and sorry again for failing at weeding through this thread.

Oh, my mistake; could have sworn it was still in the package.
A binary of keyconv is available in the v0.19 download.

Keyconv utility isn't compiled. It is just a c binary. Someone has to do this. I tried but I am failing to compile it. I used online services too.

   ~~MZ~~

Can't help much with compilation, but the official binaries are in the github repo, as mentioned in the first post:

See also:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6048543

Still haven't figured it out how to compile this for Windows, or where to download it already compiled... Can someone give a hand?

Yep - that worked thanks

Try making adding an empty line at the end, so:

Great program!

I'm running the following command on windows 7: vanitygen -f patterns.txt

It only seems to find addresses for the first pattern in patterns.txt which was generated by notepad.exe.  I.e. if I have a file with the following 2 lines:
1234
1x

it will only ever find addresses starting with 1234.  Any ideas?

yes you are right

Is this version of keyconv avaliable for windows anywhere?

Great, thanks in advance!

Basically the -s, -t, -g, -b parameters, there's really not much else to tweak.  A better option would be to see if you can optimize the actual code further / specifically for your card.
Also use the "-F compressed" option, that should boost performance a bit further.
And if you're not already using the lifeboat version, see if that gives you a performance boost as well - though read its thread for details and possible concerns.

If you're using the oclvanityminer, then the result is automatically submitted and the pool should pay out to the address specified.


Technically it's not assigned by the pool - the utility downloads the complete list and does a calculation of which is the most profitable given reward vs difficulty (the 'lavishness') to decide on the vanity to mine for.
There's an alternative code base that has some additional control: https://github.com/WyseNynja/vanitygen/commit/fb37cfbcfaf8a6922cc2b872cb19a11fdc252c92

But if you want further control - say, only mine if a given address should be generated within a week (on average!) - you'd have to set something up manually or mess with the source code yourself.

Also just to note (though I believe you understand this, mostly repeating it here for the new eyeballs on this thread) - keep in mind that it isn't really a 'pool' so much as a distributed task.  If you don't find a requested vanity address, you get nothing, even if your machine's been powering away at it 24/7.

I raised it to 22Mkey by overclocking the card. got no idea which params to try, but it's late now for me. maybe i'll try tomorrow.

If i get lucky and solve it where is the result saved and how can i redeem the reward?

Also, can i choose which work to do, instead of being assigned by the pool?

You can try playing with some of the finer parameters, but it's probably not going to get much better; even if you speed it up 2x it'll still be well over 18 months (average)

Thanks! didn't miss it just didn't understand right.

i had to open a command prompt and enter the 2nd command you post but it wouldn't start untill i added "-D 0:0" which is my GPU, so in my case the command line is:

Now i am mining with ~20Mkey for "1Smoothie" with 50% prob in 3.3y. Any way i can further optimize it?

Thanks again

I've made a vanity pool recently http://multicoinpool.org/index.php?page=vanity

I can put up the fixed vanitygen binaries if desired.