Quote from: KXWtZnnu on February 16, 2017, 07:21:04 PM

Quote from: Lituation on February 16, 2017, 06:50:22 PM

Does anyone know what it would take to create a working vanity address such as the burn address?

I think that would be case closed if they had any clue.

lol at some people here Cheesy

tl;dr get a quantum computer, if you want to calculate the private key for VidzBurnAddrForTheNovusphereZEZyC in your lifetime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing

Longread:
As I don't know the code used for VIDZ addresses, I used plain BTC vanitygen.
Remarks:

In terms of complexity it shouldn't matter, which vanitygen code you use.
I couldn't enter the full length of the address. This was not supported. The full length increases the complexity.
This was run on a slow CPU. But even using GPU mining rigs wouldn't help much.

Code:

./vanitygen 1VidzBurnAddrForTheNovusphe
Difficulty: 164888818503458230623158005923420463190199545920
[419.84 Kkey/s][total 3038208][Prob 0.0%][50% in 8.632233e+33y]

50% probability in 8000000000000000000000000000000000 years (I hope I didn't mess up with the zeroes).
Increase the computing power by billions and you still have to try longer than the universe exists to have at least 50 percent chance to find a key.

The current estimated age of our universe is
13700000000 years, which looks tiny compared to calculating the private key for VidzBurnAddrForTheNovusphereZEZyC
8000000000000000000000000 years to have 50% when running at 419 * 10^9 kkeys/s (computing power increased by factor 1 billion compared to my CPU).

Keep in mind that I had to cut "ZEZyC", because it was too long. As I added "1" at the beginning, this reduced the string in total by 4 characters.

ZEZyCQ is the checksum, an address is

Code:

address = version + ripemd160(sha256(publickey)) + checksum