Giter VIP home page Giter VIP logo

zcash-vanity's Introduction

Zcash Vanity Address Generator

I just thought of something. Eventually there'll be some interest in brute force scanning bitcoin addresses to find one with the first few characters customized to your name, kind of like getting a phone number that spells out something. Just by chance I have my initials.

—Satoshi Nakamoto in an email to Hal Finney in 2009, referring to his Bitcoin address 1NSwywA5Dvuyw89sfs3oLPvLiDNGf48cPD.

Zcash-vanity is a high-throughput vanity address generator for Zcash shielded addresses (z-addrs), i.e. those starting with "zc".

You can search for addresses with particular prefixes, e.g. "zcVANiTY". The engine is written in OpenCL so that it can run on devices such as GPUs. Currently, NVIDIA's GTX 1080 Ti can locate an exact 6-character prefix (excluding "zc") in around 30 seconds.

Case-insensitive matching and multiple prefixes are also supported.

Installation

The engine wrapper is written in Rust. At the moment, the easiest way to install zcash-vanity is to install Rust, which comes with a package manager called Cargo. Then run:

cargo install zcash-vanity

This should download all dependencies, build and add zcash-vanity to your path. You will also need OpenCL installed.

Usage

Note: not all 58 characters can be used as the third character of the prefix; only the following may be used: [8-9,A-Z,a-h].

The following should list all available options:

zcash-vanity --help

Note that unless otherwise specified, all available OpenCL devices are used, which may include your CPU on some platforms.

Related Work

  • zcash-mini, a portable wallet generator written in Go by Filippo Valsorda, which supports vanity address generation (z-addrs) too but not using the GPU.
  • vanitygen_z, a modified version of Bitcoin's vanitygen, for generating transparent Zcash addresses (t-addrs) using OpenCL.

Donations gratefully received at zcVANiTYZ1VxZp9dr6CEqfesYyfak8d6ZDFh4LLQPtHdGUb47CkpHzspFg4YV4NqsfyWkUxs4rcrzhKGsqHhXkzZsWkDaLT.

Please see https://zcash.plutomonkey.com/vanity/ for further information and new releases.

zcash-vanity's People

Contributors

jasondavies avatar zmanian avatar

Watchers

 avatar

Recommend Projects

  • React photo React

    A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

  • Vue.js photo Vue.js

    🖖 Vue.js is a progressive, incrementally-adoptable JavaScript framework for building UI on the web.

  • Typescript photo Typescript

    TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

  • TensorFlow photo TensorFlow

    An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone

  • Django photo Django

    The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

  • D3 photo D3

    Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. 📊📈🎉

Recommend Topics

  • javascript

    JavaScript (JS) is a lightweight interpreted programming language with first-class functions.

  • web

    Some thing interesting about web. New door for the world.

  • server

    A server is a program made to process requests and deliver data to clients.

  • Machine learning

    Machine learning is a way of modeling and interpreting data that allows a piece of software to respond intelligently.

  • Game

    Some thing interesting about game, make everyone happy.

Recommend Org

  • Facebook photo Facebook

    We are working to build community through open source technology. NB: members must have two-factor auth.

  • Microsoft photo Microsoft

    Open source projects and samples from Microsoft.

  • Google photo Google

    Google ❤️ Open Source for everyone.

  • D3 photo D3

    Data-Driven Documents codes.