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ThePiachu

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Quote from: BurtW on January 23, 2012, 12:29:24 AM

I can generate a vanity address for you - no problem. BUT you do NOT want anyone to do this for you for the simple reason that if I, or anyone, generates the address for you then I/they will know your private key. It is really not that hard to do yourself. Just download the program and run it. I can help you with setup questions and a regular expression for the program if you want me to.

BTW I own a lot of cool addresses including http://firstbits.com/1xyzzy If you know what that means then you are older than dirt (like me).

Now you don't need to trust a third party to generate your vanity addresses:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/vanity-pool-vanity-address-generator-pool-84569

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Quote from: deepceleron on January 31, 2012, 01:51:56 PM

Markio finally gave up on vanitygen himself (in eight hours of GPU generating, I only found one "hard" lower-case 1markio, after all), and requested my help, and a new wallet.dat was fine for him.

Send markio some coins!

Note: I ran bitcoin -keypool=0 at all times while creating the wallet. There are only these five addresses in the wallet; when he first uses it, Bitcoin will then create the 100-key reserve pool. This is important - pressing "create new address" will give keys from the pool he generated on his computer, so any future addresses I can't possibly know.

PS. Why did some anonyfounder decide to store the Bitcoin settings in the wallet instead of an .ini file or registry??

    "settings": {
        "addrProxy": "127.0.0.1:23075", 
        "fMinimizeOnClose": "False", 
        "fMinimizeToTray": "False", 
        "fUseProxy": "False", 
        "fUseUPnP": "False"
    },

Good thing I never traded any vanity addresses, didn't even THINK about keypool until now. Definitely a very important thing to be conscious of.

markio

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I'm learning a lot from this experience and I've got some cool new addresses, thanks again deepceleron

deepceleron

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Markio finally gave up on vanitygen himself (in eight hours of GPU generating, I only found one "hard" lower-case 1markio, after all), and requested my help, and a new wallet.dat was fine for him.

Send markio some coins!

Note: I ran bitcoin -keypool=0 at all times while creating the wallet. There are only these five addresses in the wallet; when he first uses it, Bitcoin will then create the 100-key reserve pool. This is important - pressing "create new address" will give keys from the pool he generated on his computer, so any future addresses I can't possibly know.

PS. Why did some anonyfounder decide to store the Bitcoin settings in the wallet instead of an .ini file or registry??

    "settings": {
        "addrProxy": "127.0.0.1:23075", 
        "fMinimizeOnClose": "False", 
        "fMinimizeToTray": "False", 
        "fUseProxy": "False", 
        "fUseUPnP": "False"
    },

MrGaSp

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Quote from: BurtW on January 24, 2012, 11:03:53 AM

He was warned that this is not the best idea in post #2 on this thread. He decided to trust deepceleron and that is his informed choice.

deepceleron: BTW I have been toying with ideas on how to create a secure system of "distributed vanity address mining" on various other threads. I was just about to do it when Gavin brought up the point that BIP 16 will make vanity address generation and my distributed vanity address generation idea easier and less computationally intensive. If BIP 16 passes then we should be able to make much longer vanity addresses for the new addresses that start with 3.

You seem to do a lot of address generation. Would you be interested in joining a vanity address generating pool (for pay) - if such a thing was to be created?

I might, and i believe a ton of people would, granted the pay was higher than just mining BTC/NMC

BurtW

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All paid signature campaigns should be banned.

He was warned that this is not the best idea in post #2 on this thread. He decided to trust deepceleron and that is his informed choice.

deepceleron: BTW I have been toying with ideas on how to create a secure system of "distributed vanity address mining" on various other threads. I was just about to do it when Gavin brought up the point that BIP 16 will make vanity address generation and my distributed vanity address generation idea easier and less computationally intensive. If BIP 16 passes then we should be able to make much longer vanity addresses for the new addresses that start with 3.

You seem to do a lot of address generation. Would you be interested in joining a vanity address generating pool (for pay) - if such a thing was to be created?

deepceleron

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Quote from: terrytibbs on January 24, 2012, 09:37:58 AM

I don't like the sound of this...

Freud calls this "projection" - traits we know about ourselves and don't like, we also project onto others.

terrytibbs

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I don't like the sound of this...

deepceleron

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Quote from: markio on January 23, 2012, 09:55:57 PM

I'll send you a PM, thanks for the list!

You should PM me an email address to send the private key, preferably one where you use pop3/smtp, not webmail. Having the private key means someone would have access to any bitcoins in that address, so you don't want them stored on a webmail or forum message database where curious eyes might snoop. Generating your own is even better than letting an internet stranger make you an address.

Of course, if you send me your pgp public key, I could encrypt the email too (or even post it anywhere and only you could decrypt the contents). Getting pgp or gnupg set up would be a good newbie task to learn about encryption...

I'll make a "pywallet for dummies" walkthrough post in the pywallet topic in a bit, showing how to set it up and use the web interface.

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Quote from: deepceleron on January 23, 2012, 07:15:20 PM

Quote from: BurtW on January 23, 2012, 01:04:45 PM

I have seen a thread related to the most difficult vanity address found to date but I can't find it right now.

If I keep doing this instead of mining bitcoins, I might end up 1DEsTiTuteD8i6XNrV3Ueeb4rUu1EtwPVY...

Destituted ... haha Grin

I'll send you a PM, thanks for the list!

BurtW

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deepceleron

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Quote from: BurtW on January 23, 2012, 01:04:45 PM

I have seen a thread related to the most difficult vanity address found to date but I can't find it right now.

I thought I might have a a contender - a nine-letter that uses "o" (twice the difficulty, since there is no Base58 "O" substitute in a case-insensitive search):

If I keep doing this instead of mining bitcoins, I might end up 1DEsTiTuteD8i6XNrV3Ueeb4rUu1EtwPVY...

grue

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pm sent

BurtW

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Quote from: malevolent on January 23, 2012, 03:06:58 PM

Anyways, anyone interested in buying an address starting with 1BitCoin or 1BiTcoin? Grin

I wanted to get 1bitcoin but it is already "taken" with respect to firstbits: http://firstbits.com/1BitCoin and it is the "black hole" address 1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE - one of my favorite BTC black holes.

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Quote from: ZodiacDragon84 on January 23, 2012, 02:32:46 PM

what if quantum computing were to do the calculating? (suck it Moore's Law!) Imagine just 1 quantum computer hashing away!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer#Developments

Shor's algorithm can't be used to speed up brute force attacks against Bitcoin addresses (which is what Vanity gen is except it accepts partial matches). Satoshi was decades ahead of his time (or very lucky). The "issue" or "strength" depending on how you look at it (quantum resistance) comes from the fact that we don't use public key & private key. We use address which is a hash of the public key and private key. If the public key is unknown shor's algorithm can't be used.

ZodiacDragon84

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The king and the pawn go in the same box @ endgame

The pun just keeps on rolling! Cheesy

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Quote from: ZodiacDragon84 on January 23, 2012, 02:32:46 PM

what if quantum computing were to do the calculating? (suck it Moore's Law!) Imagine just 1 quantum computer hashing away!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer#Developments

I think they still need 'a bit' of more development to do that.

Anyways, anyone interested in buying an address starting with 1BitCoin or 1BiTcoin? Grin

ZodiacDragon84

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The king and the pawn go in the same box @ endgame

what if quantum computing were to do the calculating? (suck it Moore's Law!) Imagine just 1 quantum computer hashing away!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer#Developments

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Just a reminder - if you are using GPU(s), set back you vram frequency to stock or even overclock, me speed increases by 1/3 between 265 MHz and 1100 MHz on a 5850.

deepceleron

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Quote from: BurtW on January 23, 2012, 01:04:45 PM

I have seen a thread related to the most difficult vanity address found to date but I can't find it right now.

Several pages back on the Vanitygen topic.

My 1bitcoins is estimated 88.7 days @ 300Kkey/s (50% chance); etotheipi's unusual all-uppercase vanitygen was 70 days @ 300Kkey/s.

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