Vanity Pool - vanity address generator pool

[LoyceV]

¿why Not Brute-Force the 1 Million BTC Satoshi Nakamoto address ?

It's much easier to find a new block. Brute-forcing random private keys is just a waste of energy.

[JuanPabloCuervo]

¿why Not Brute-Force the 1 Million BTC Satoshi Nakamoto address ?

It's much easier to find a new block. Brute-forcing random private keys is just a waste of energy.

1 Milliiom BTC = $32 Billion usd.

$32´000,000,000 usd.

you can buy all the Power plants you want.


when all 21 million coins are mined,
miner reward will be only the transfer fee,


nice hash calculator:
1x RTX3090 less than $8usd. /day.
https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator/nvidia-rtx-3090

less than $2900usd. /year.
$29,000usd. / 10 Years. "without including electric bill increase, coin reward halved, difficulty increase, etc..."

if there is 1 Million Brute-Force miners = $1 BTC each.
vs. Ten years of work to make less money.

[LoyceV]

1 Milliiom BTC = $32 Billion usd.

There's not one address holding a million Bitcoin, you'll need to brute-force 20,000 different addresses. There are currently 5,739 addresses holding exactly 50 Bitcoin, and 37,003 addresses holding 50.x Bitcoin (I can imagine many of those addresses have received some dust over the years).

if there is 1 Million Brute-Force miners = $1 BTC each.

You can try as long as you want, you'll never find a randomly generated private key. This image comes to mind:

I would refer you to the below picture to help you understand the probability of finding a "random" private key with coin in it:


There are 2^160 possible private keys. For comparison, there are currently approximately 2^26 unspent outputs, however some addresses have multiple unspent outputs.

If a private key was generated randomly, for all intents and purposes, it is not going to be found out via a brute force attack.

[nintendo1889]

No new messages since a while, has anyone used it in 2021 ?

The Pool should still be up, haven't heard of anyone complain about it in awhile.

Won't vanity generators it make it easy for people to steal funds?

[Synchronice]

No new messages since a while, has anyone used it in 2021 ?

The Pool should still be up, haven't heard of anyone complain about it in awhile.

Won't vanity generators it make it easy for people to steal funds?

No, no!
Let me explain, this is the satoshi's wallet that holds 72 Bitcoin: 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
I have a VanitySearch and use RTX2060. If I were to try to generate exactly that address, the situation would look like this:


Here you see that hashrate of 951.41 Mkey/s takes 3.37637e+31 years FOR 50% chance to generate that address. Now, multiply 951.41 Mkey/s to whatever number of RTX 2060 GPU you want and then tell me what gives you a hope that by creating a pool, you'll be able to crack addresses. Chances are almost non-existent.

[nintendo1889]

Won't vanity generators it make it easy for people to steal funds?

No, no!
Let me explain, this is the satoshi's wallet that holds 72 Bitcoin: 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
I have a VanitySearch and use RTX2060. If I were to try to generate exactly that address, the situation would look like this:
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/06/30/S7Cyo.png

Here you see that hashrate of 951.41 Mkey/s takes 3.37637e+31 years FOR 50% chance to generate that address. Now, multiply 951.41 Mkey/s to whatever number of RTX 2060 GPU you want and then tell me what gives you a hope that by creating a pool, you'll be able to crack addresses. Chances are almost non-existent.

Ok ok! I thought that the vanity pool website was people selling the vanity addresses (which would make it trivial to steal funds!), but I guess they are just showing them off.

I found a good answer here:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3853/can-one-safely-buy-vanity-addresses-from-a-third-party-without-risking-ones-coi

[ddf2020]

Found a solution for Searched pattern: 1iJuniorTV
Problem sending payment.

No new messages since a while, has anyone used it in 2021 ?

The Pool should still be up, haven't heard of anyone complain about it in awhile.

Payments do not work.

[Cricktor]

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You don't provide any details to help you, except that you have some issue and it seems like you don't get the finding bounty.

How about you provide some more details for this split-key solution problem? I don't ask for the solution itself, that should be obvious.

What software did you use?
What command line arguments did you use?
Was the solution automatically submitted or did you submit the solution manually?
What address type did you use to collect the solution bounty (see below)?
Did you get some error message or something similar in your log file when trying to collect the solution bounty?
Did you check that your split-key solution actually produces a correct address prefix?

Did you contact the original creator? When I look into the profile of ThePiachu, the user was last active quite recently: 2024-10-12, 18:16:52 UTC. You can also mention him here, like with @ThePiachu, but seriously provide more details for debugging your problem. Nobody here can read your mind!


I once solved one of the former and way easier work items offered, but that was a very long time ago. The bounty payment came swiftly to my provided legacy payment address.

Did you use a legacy address type (addresses that start with 1...) as I wouldn't expect if the site can handle wrapped segwit or native segwit addresses!?

[ddf2020]

~~~

You don't provide any details to help you, except that you have some issue and it seems like you don't get the finding bounty.

How about you provide some more details for this split-key solution problem? I don't ask for the solution itself, that should be obvious.

What software did you use?
What command line arguments did you use?
Was the solution automatically submitted or did you submit the solution manually?
What address type did you use to collect the solution bounty (see below)?
Did you get some error message or something similar in your log file when trying to collect the solution bounty?
Did you check that your split-key solution actually produces a correct address prefix?

Did you contact the original creator? When I look into the profile of ThePiachu, the user was last active quite recently: 2024-10-12, 18:16:52 UTC. You can also mention him here, like with @ThePiachu, but seriously provide more details for debugging your problem. Nobody here can read your mind!


I once solved one of the former and way easier work items offered, but that was a very long time ago. The bounty payment came swiftly to my provided legacy payment address.

Did you use a legacy address type (addresses that start with 1...) as I wouldn't expect if the site can handle wrapped segwit or native segwit addresses!?

ThePiachu Confirmed the existence of a problem with the transfer of bitcoins. And assured that he is working on solving this issue, but he needs some time to do so.

[Cricktor]

And assured that he is working on solving this issue, but he needs some time to do so.

That's likely good news and you may collect your bounty in the end.

Found a solution for Searched pattern: 1iJuniorTV

I'm curious, do you mind telling us how long you searched for a solution?

What equipment did you use to crunch on this particular problem? Did you search only for this or also for the other available work items?

[ddf2020]

And assured that he is working on solving this issue, but he needs some time to do so.

That's likely good news and you may collect your bounty in the end.

Found a solution for Searched pattern: 1iJuniorTV

I'm curious, do you mind telling us how long you searched for a solution?

What equipment did you use to crunch on this particular problem? Did you search only for this or also for the other available work items?

The search for a solution for this task took 1 month, the modern Nvidia video cards were used several pieces, plus a special search scheme to reduce the time to find the solution! Now I have launched a solution to a solution for another task.

[ddf2020]

And assured that he is working on solving this issue, but he needs some time to do so.

That's likely good news and you may collect your bounty in the end.

Found a solution for Searched pattern: 1iJuniorTV

ThePiachu continues to work on the repair of payments of remuneration through the site, he needs time to resolve this issue! Received payment for 1iJuniorTV from ThePiachu directly in the amount of 0.01BTC.

[LoyceV]

Received payment for 1iJuniorTV from ThePiachu directly in the amount of 0.01BTC.

I'm just amazed the site is still active after all those years!

Does that mean the users who "placed an order" for a vanity address paid in Bitcoin years ago, and by now the value of their payment went up a lot?

[Cricktor]

Does that mean the users who "placed an order" for a vanity address paid in Bitcoin years ago, and by now the value of their payment went up a lot?

Yes, to place a work item on the list of available work list, the user who ordered the vanity address had to pay in Bitcoin upfront. The site calculated an amount based on the complexity of the vanity address (I don't know all the details, but I remember that I tried and played with the site back in late 2012 or so, evaluating for fun some vanity addresses of varying complexity just to get a feel what requesters were charged for a comparable order and I solved a not so hard work item and got paid for it when I submitted the split-key solution without much delay).

It wasn't very expensive in 2012, but we all know how the value of Bitcoin changed.

Every few months in the past years I was curious to see if anything changed with the last work items. For years almost nothing happened AFAIR. Out of nostalgia, I'm now a bit excited to read that someone actually tackled some of the last reasonably hard work items.

Congrats to @ddf2020 and chapeau! to @ThePiachu who kept the site alive, likely because some people paid good coins to enlist their vanity address work items for others to solve. I find it very admirable that ThePiachu didn't close the site or walk away silently with the coins after all those years. He also could've contacted the requestors and just returned the coins to close the site with clean hands. I'm positively amazed.

I'm wandering if the users who ordered their vanity address will appreciate the solution.

[LoyceV]

I find it very admirable that ThePiachu didn't close the site or walk away silently with the coins after all those years. He also could've contacted the requestors and just returned the coins to close the site with clean hands. I'm positively amazed.

After all those years I didn't expect that, and the website doesn't look like it's ever been updated:

We strongly encourage you to pay at least the honest fee, which is a break-even point for GPU miners in relation to block mining.

[ddf2020]

Hi, I found a solution for Searched pattern: 1RoseCross
The payment is not going through to me. Writes: Solution does not match the pattern
Everything is correct, I checked everything again. I wrote about it to ThePiachu. The search took 19 days on the same equipment.


1SatoshiNak      In line for search
1AustriaFTW     Search
1HASHCRACK1   In line for search
1RoseCross       The solution was found
1iJuniorTV         The solution was found

[WhyFhy]

Hi, I found a solution for Searched pattern: 1RoseCross
The payment is not going through to me. Writes: Solution does not match the pattern
Everything is correct, I checked everything again. I wrote about it to ThePiachu. The search took 19 days on the same equipment.


1SatoshiNak      In line for search
1AustriaFTW     Search
1HASHCRACK1   In line for search
1RoseCross       The solution was found
1iJuniorTV         The solution was found

You found a solution. Not the solution. Try again.
Your keypairs  aren't merging to a known prefix .
You have about a 1 in 6 chance of getting it right the first time.
There is a slight chance something may be going wrong on the backend. But I doubt it. (This is why I'm pretty certain your keypairs are mismatched) Correct solution. Incorrect merged prefix.

I'm not saying Piachu will rug pull but BTC did just hit 100k I'm pretty sure a lot of people are going to exit soon. Just hope your endeavors don't get pulled.

[ddf2020]

Hi, I found a solution for Searched pattern: 1RoseCross
The payment is not going through to me. Writes: Solution does not match the pattern
Everything is correct, I checked everything again. I wrote about it to ThePiachu. The search took 19 days on the same equipment.


1SatoshiNak      In line for search
1AustriaFTW     Search
1HASHCRACK1   In line for search
1RoseCross       The solution was found
1iJuniorTV         The solution was found

You found a solution. Not the solution. Try again.
Your keypairs  aren't merging to a known prefix .
You have about a 1 in 6 chance of getting it right the first time.
There is a slight chance something may be going wrong on the backend. But I doubt it. (This is why I'm pretty certain your keypairs are mismatched) Correct solution. Incorrect merged prefix.

I'm not saying Piachu will rug pull but BTC did just hit 100k I'm pretty sure a lot of people are going to exit soon. Just hope your endeavors don't get pulled.

1RoseCross
1RoseCrossRd4TQnR9w66mDbpLJcCPqXE
Are there any matches in the conditions of the task?
I'm waiting for ThePiachu to answer.

[LoyceV]

You found a solution. Not the solution. Try again.
Your keypairs  aren't merging to a known prefix .
You have about a 1 in 6 chance of getting it right the first time.

Can you explain this? As far as I know, vanity split key matches should be correct and not have a "1 in 6" chance.

[ddf2020]

Hi, I found a solution for Searched pattern: 1RoseCross
The payment is not going through to me. Writes: Solution does not match the pattern
Everything is correct, I checked everything again. I wrote about it to ThePiachu. The search took 19 days on the same equipment.


1SatoshiNak      In line for search
1AustriaFTW     Search
1HASHCRACK1   In line for search
1RoseCross       The solution was found
1iJuniorTV         The solution was found

You found a solution. Not the solution. Try again.
Your keypairs  aren't merging to a known prefix .
You have about a 1 in 6 chance of getting it right the first time.
There is a slight chance something may be going wrong on the backend. But I doubt it. (This is why I'm pretty certain your keypairs are mismatched) Correct solution. Incorrect merged prefix.

I'm not saying Piachu will rug pull but BTC did just hit 100k I'm pretty sure a lot of people are going to exit soon. Just hope your endeavors don't get pulled.

Why does my solution not always match after combining two keys it gives a completely different address? I have found the correct address.
https://gobittest.appspot.com/VanityAll
I checked other options found and they also did not all match; the first symbols of the address were completely different after combining the two keys.

1SatoshiNak      In line for search
1AustriaFTW     In line for search
1HASHCRACK1   In line for search
1RoseCross       Search
1iJuniorTV        The solution was found

ThePiachu Continues to work on fixing payments from the pool site.