Quote from: bwatts on November 17, 2019, 07:21:50 PM

What hardware do I need to speed up generation of address, it uses GPU?

vanitygen.exe is using CPU but the same file from samr7 contains also oclvanitygen.exe which is using GPU:

Quote from: 1miau on January 12, 2019, 03:58:51 PM

You can try vanitygen.exe or use the file oclvanitygen.exe, its up to you which one you prefer. The difference between them is that vanitygen is CPU-based and oclvanitygen GPU-based. For our 4-digit combination, dont matter if case-sensitive or case-insensitive, vanitygen is sufficient on a normal PC, oclvanitygen tends to be faster, if it works. For the technical background you'll find more information in the original article from 2011: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0

But after I created the guide, Jean_Luc developed VanitySearch which is much faster in general. So if you need more than 4 characters, VanitySearch is your best decision:

Quote from: 1miau on January 12, 2019, 03:58:51 PM

Update 04/04/2019:

Member Jean_Luc has developed another vanity-address-generator and published it on github: https://github.com/JeanLucPons/VanitySearch

It's much faster than vanitygen and supports besides P2PKH legacy addresses (1..) also SegWit addresses P2SH (3...) and bech32 (bc1q...)

You can check out his announcement on Bitcointalk here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112311.0