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Re: What do you think about vanity addresses?
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poncho32
on 28/10/2015, 14:30:52 UTC

A legendary member had explained how these addresses are generated.
It's not that link, however generating an address like this i think it takes lots of years (or simple impossible) using vanity.
Q7 i think it would a good idea to have an easy-to-remember address but the possibility is zero.

That link is to a sort of "mining pool" that Otoh started for for creating vanity addresses, which is still operational. A few years ago he made this post showing the "longest" address his "pool" had managed to generate. I think generating anywhere beyond nine chosen characters is very difficult and too time consuming.

The longest to date generated by ThePiachu's Vanity Pool & thread btw is 9 chars after the initial 1 for 1ELiZABETHdzGTuQeg2RnCcWBMVo3ySfTz that I'd requested as a gift for someone.

Vanity addresses could be useful if used by top rich list holders such as exchanges to let people know who owns a top wallet.