Quote from: samr7 on August 18, 2012, 08:13:09 AM

The vanitygen suite now includes a program called oclvanityminer that is designed to work with this pool. Please try it out!

I`m looking forward to trying out how it works, thanks! Does it have all the features listed in the requirements, so I can send you the bounty afterwards?

Quote from: samr7 on August 18, 2012, 04:58:52 PM

One feature you may wish to consider adding to vanity pool, the ability to specify case-insensitivity in bounties.

Whoever posted the bounties for 1Satoshi and 1satoshi paid for two different addresses differing only in the case of the first letter. It's entirely possible that that person simply wants that name on firstbits, and would rather pay for one case-insensitive address. Also, at the reward offered for those bounties, finding a case-insensitive match would be very close to profitable, but finding either of the case-sensitive variants is not.

Actually, I did talk to the person and they wanted just the capitalised version. They didn`t know that the pool is case-sensitive, so I payed for the other version and added a note on the work submission about the issue.

Later I will want to include regular expressions into the pool, but those might be a bit harder to check for validity at the initial stage.

Quote from: runlinux on August 18, 2012, 05:11:21 PM

Next step here is to setup something where it checks the vanity pool for work. If based on some criteria, its more lucrative to mine a vanity address than to mine at a typical pool, it mines at the vanity pool over the typical pool.

I wonder how that'd be to do...

I did some comparison like that and put it in my master thesis here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88149.0

It all varies based on your GPU's rate of generating hashes and keys, as well as the difficulty, rewards, etc.