Re: Vanity Pool - vanity address generator pool
To be honest, I already had thought of a Vanity pool concept last year around this time, trouble was that I had no idea how it would work. Back then I was not familiar with public-key cryptography much less that you can add them or multiply them.
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Perhaps calculate the difficulty of the pattern like in VanityGen and using some formula to calculate the fee for finding it.
1. provide instructions for generating EDCSA key pairs.
Sure, I`ll try doing that with the next update. 2. realistic bounties based on difficulty.
Yeah, I`ll probably have to do something about it. So far "pay what you want" has turned out to be "pay minimum amount".Question: Have you received enough interest in your project to warrant a move from a bounty system to a true pool system where everyone in the pool is working to generate a vanity address and then shares in the profit? The bounty method seems incredibly wasteful.
Not yet. So far the interest has been slim. But yeah, once the site gets popular I`ll probably have to move into the traditional pool system. For now, I`m just keeping it simple.I like your project enough that I've sent you a very small donation. I hope this develops into something the community can use as a viable income resource in the future.
Thank you for your donation. I also hope more people become interested in the project. Perhaps some hybrid between a vanity address and a Bitcoin debit card would do the trick...