Vanity Miner

Note

• This program will stress all provided cores to the maximum, if you provide all cores your computer might become unresponsive
• It could also deal fatal damage to your CPU, so be careful when using it

Requirements

• Python 3.X

Packages

• bitcoin (by vbuterin)

Overview

• This is just a simple implementation of a vanity miner for bitcoin addresses

• A vanity address is an address that starts with a user specified pattern of characters

• For example an address with the prefix 1kid:

1kidTuqUu3sFzg5FgnQPPZDChN2qzdx1B

• The only way to get a vanity address is by trial and error

How it works

• As mentioned earlier the only way to get a vanity address is by brute-force
• The script generates a private key, derives a public key from it, then further derives an address from the public key
• It then checks the newly generated address with the given pattern, if it matches you will receive the private key, public key and vanity address
• If however the new address doesn't match your pattern, it will generate another set of private key, public key and address until it matches

Usage

• The script works with system arguments
• You can specify the pattern to look for in the first argument
• And the amount of cpu cores to look for it in the second argument
• -l toggles case sensitivity
• With -w the address data and runtime data are saved

python vanity-miner.py <vanity prefix> <cpu count> <case sensitivity> <save to file>

Data

• Is given in terminal
• If saved it can be located in the files folder

Examples

Case sensitive

Case insensitive