hey Elwar - I was wondering about this yesterday. Whats the probability that the vanitygen would generate an already existing address? Set up a farm to run these programs, generate addresses and check their balances?
PLEASE, for the love of god, PLEASE search for this and do not start another thread on this subject (address collision) there are at least 1,000 threads on this subject already.
Shouldn't we have some easily linkable FAQ covering this and thousands other questions ?
Or have we got that already ?
I'm evangelizing a lot and getting tired of answering the same questions. If there is no comprehensive resource like that I might set up one.
Even if you have the FAQ on a sidebar in this forum , there will be still people asking those question.
It happens everywhere and not only with bitcoin.
Look at the amount of posts regarding the newbie restriction when there is a sticky post just in that sub forum.