Much like a vanity license plate, an address can also be chosen to include a particular word or series of characters.
Questions tagged [vanity-address]
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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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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 take longer to generate an address when I stop and restart vanitygen?
I want to generate a bitcoin address.
I start vanitygen, but a power loss occurs.
Now I restart vanitygen.
How does this affect the time to generate the address?
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Vanity address time caclculator
How can I know the time it takes to generate an X letters vanity address given an Y hash rate / cpu power ? Is there any online calculator for this ?
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How are vanity addresses generated?
The gambling site satoshi bones uses addresses that start with 1bones, such as
1bonesEeTcABPjLzAb1VkFgySY6Zqu3sX
How did they generate such a vanity address?
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Are these Addresses Invalid ones?
I saw some addresses in blockchain that the format look "too pretty" to be valid:
- 1fuLL1xxxx1power1xxxxxxxxxxzatvCK
- 1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxy1kmdGr
I assume these addresses are actually valid ones, but must never and will never get the…
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Accelerate vanity address generation
How can the generation of a vanity address be accelerated?. How can the brute-force algorithm be improved beyond trying a bunch of randomly selected private keys?
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