Much like a vanity license plate, an address can also be chosen to include a particular word or series of characters.
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How can I generate a vanity Bitcoin address?
I once found a program that was capable of creating Bitcoin addresses with specific words in them, but can't find it now. Is there a trusted program, in the Ubuntu repositories for example, that can generate these 'vanity' addresses?
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Can one safely buy vanity addresses from a third party without risking one's coins from being stolen?
One can easily generate vanity addresses for Bitcoin, but they can take quite awhile to generate. Outsourcing that process to someone with a strong mining rig is an option, but then one runs into the risk of the person generating the address using…
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What is the longest known vanity address generated?
Anyone can generate a vanity address of arbitrary length with appropriate tools, it's just a matter of performing enough computations. What is the longest known vanity address anyone has generated?
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How can I use the vanity name generator to look for an address?
How do you use the vanity name generator to look for an address?
Is there an estimate on how long it takes to find addresses of varying lengths and complexities?
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How many bitcoins have been sent to Base58-invalid addresses?
Some bitcoins have been permanently lost when they are sent the the following addresses. The explanation I've found is that they contain characters that are invalid in…
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What is vanity address?
I saw lot of questions about vanity addresses, but not sure what is vanity address. Could someone please explain?
thanks.
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When importing private keys, will compressed or uncompressed format be used?
I am looking into implementing support for compressed public keys on Vanity Pool. However, I have my concerns about importing solutions into a desired vanity address under that format. From what I can see about the explanation how a compressed key…
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Why does vanitygen ban certain letters on testnet?
I'm guessing that vanitygen is more strict or has different rules than production's Base58 rules.
Why are some of thse names marked not possible?
C:\vanitygen>oclvanitygen -k -o gpukeystestout.txt -i -f gpukeystest.txt -T
Prefix 'mdemo1' not…
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For a non-technical person, how do I generate a ECDSA key pair easily?
I want to know because I would like to generate a vanity address at Vanity Pool.
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What's the point of Bitcoin eaters?
I see some bitcoin documentation sites reference dummy addresses like "1bitcoinEaterAddressDontSend32425663" or something made up like that. I'd assume it's just so people reading the docs won't try to "tip" the writer and send to a foobar address…
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Best way to calculate difficulty of generating specific vanity address?
I'm now working at small tool, which purpose is to calculate difficulty (like number of attempts) of getting vanity address, like vanitygen (https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen) does. I've read some materials…
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Generating addresses starting with certain characters such as "JoeAnonymousUserB7pMqyVa8JRcpZdCQLQ"
Similar to how the SHA256 hash competition exists to validate a transaction, I wonder if this concept can be ported to addresses, so that the first few characters is significant to a human reader.
Is there value in making a public key address start…
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Difficulty in obtaining vanity Bitcoin addresses
What is the formula I can use to estimate the difficulty in generating vanity Bitcoin addresses?
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Does it hurt the network to reuse addresses?
There is already a question that ask why you shouldn't reuse addresses, but it's about whether or not it's a bad idea for the person who would do the reusing. I understand there are several reasons you'd want to avoid reusing (e.g., fear that ECDSA…
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How fast can one generate Bitcoin addresses?
Seeing as the topic of generating address conflicts comes up every now and then, I am wondering if someone looked into the problem a bit further.
Has anyone measured the speed at which Bitcoin addresses can be generated (mainly with some efficient…
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