Bitcoin Vanity Address: Defined
What is a Vanity Address and How Does It Work?
It's a normal bitcoin address that starts with some string of characters that appeals to you.In some way it is a bit like having a personalised number plate on your car.
How to import a Private Key into a Wallet?
By design HD wallets are not compatible with vanity addresses.List of compatible wallets with import instructions:
Paper Wallet:
Delivery method:
When your vanity address is ready, you will receive it by chosen delivery method:- Email (one time link to receive your address).
- Traditional post (whole world delivery).
Security:
- Security is our top priority.
- After address generation is complete we send it to you with chosen delivery method.
- Our automatic process delete every trace of generation.
Forbidden characters:
Bitcoin addresses consist of random digits and uppercase and lowercase letters, with the exception that the uppercase letter "O", uppercase letter "I", lowercase letter "l", and the number "0" are never used to prevent visual ambiguity.Longer and cheaper Vanity Address:
We are in process of expanding our infrastructure to allow even longer Vanity Addresses at lower prices.Two examples are below:
1GOOGLEzZDwTGhXJwPSapWtViWJf2NJYyt
1googLemzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v
[Vanitygen]:
Vanity-Generator is a command-line vanity bitcoin address generator.If you're tired of the random, cryptic addresses generated by regular bitcoin clients, you can use vanitygen to create a more personalized address. Add unique flair when you tell people to send bitcoins to 1stDownqyMHHqnDPRSfiZ5GXJ8Gk9dbjO. Alternatively, vanitygen can be used to generate random addresses offline.
Vanitygen accepts as input a pattern, or list of patterns to search for, and produces a list of addresses and private keys. Vanitygen's search is probabilistic, and the amount of time required to find a given pattern depends on how complex the pattern is, the speed of your computer, and whether you get lucky.
The example below illustrates a session of vanitygen. It is typical, and takes about 10 sec to finish, using a Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU on x86-64 Linux:
$ ./vanitygen 1Boat Difficulty: 4476342 Pattern: 1Boat Address: 1BoatSLRHtKNngkdXEeobR76b53LETtpyT Privkey:
5J4XJRyLVgzbXEgh8VNi4qovLzxRftzMd8a18KkdXv4EqAwX3tS
Vanitygen includes components to perform address searching on your CPU (vanitygen) and your OpenCL-compatible GPU (oclvanitygen). Both can be built from source, and both are included in the Windows binary package. Also included is oclvanityminer, the vanity address mining client. Oclvanityminer can be used to automatically claim bounties on sites such as ThePiachu's Vanity Pool.
Current version: 0.22
Windows x86+x64 binaries here. PGP signature here.
Get the source from GitHub. Includes Makefiles for Linux and Mac OS X.
Main discussion at BitCoinTalk
The latest source doesn't work properly for high-end AMD cards (7XXX and greater). Solution is to change line 459 in oclengine.c from: return quirks; to: return quirks & ~VG_OCL_AMD_BFI_INT; Windows x86+x64 binaries that solve this problem plus provide support for compressed keys here. PGP signature here. If you have any problems with the binaries, join the relevant BitCoinTalk discussion.
What is a Vanity Address?
It's a normal bitcoin address that starts with some string of characters that appeals to you. In some way it is a bit like having a personalised number plate on your car.
How to import a Private Key into a Wallet?
By design HD wallets are not compatible with vanity addresses. List of compatible wallets with import instructions:
Paper Wallet:
With your vanity address, you automatically receive paper wallet. You can print it and fold like below.
Delivery Method:
When your vanity address is ready, you will receive it by chosen delivery method:
- Email (one time link to receive your address).
- Traditional post (whole world delivery).
Security:
Security is our top priority. After address generation is complete we send it to you with chosen delivery method. Our automatic process delete every trace of generation.
Forbidden Characters:
Bitcoin addresses consist of random digits and uppercase and lowercase letters, with the exception that the
uppercase letter "O", uppercase letter "I", lowercase letter "l", and the number "0" are never used to prevent visual ambiguity.
Longer and cheaper Vanity Address:
We are in process of expanding our infrastructure to allow even longer Vanity Addresses at lower prices.
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