How are vanity addresses generated?

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The gambling site satoshi bones uses addresses that start with 1bones, such as

1bonesEeTcABPjLzAb1VkFgySY6Zqu3sX

How did they generate such a vanity address?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 05 '14 at 19:45

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there are applications, which take the starting text and generates milions of new addresses until the generated address starts with the selected text. It's pretty fast for short strings (3 characters). you'll wait about few minutes for 5 characters (case insensitive).

one such application is vanitygen.

answered Jan 05 '14 at 19:45

V-X

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Are there problems importing the private key? Can these be imported into online services like Coinbase? – zaph Jan 05 '14 at 20:37
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I use vanity adresses in bitcoind and blockchain.info (see this wiki) but I don't think, it is not possible to import your own addresses into Coinbase. – V-X Jan 11 '14 at 07:49
There used to be an address generator with prefix selection in inputs.io... Coinbase is similar type of service. You don't have any own addresses. You just have your account and they give you some their addresses bound to your account. Is that correct? – V-X Jan 11 '14 at 07:52
@V-X Yes, that's one reason why Coinbase.com isn't that secure. – Geremia Apr 17 '15 at 23:10

How are vanity addresses generated?

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