Quote from: tyz on Today at 10:22:38 AM

Quote from: bitcoinwhoswho on Today at 04:36:50 AM

with an average setup how long would you expect it to take before finding a vanity address like 1ELonMUSK14JSGNYAcPJNqubuFByZPyjcj? Or 1SPacex1daUkw7L6ux8Cfw7jASexb9umL?

I would be interested in that, too. Is there a calculator with which you can roughly determine how much time you need with a certain setup for a certain number of characters? I did a address generation for four characters today, which took me around 25 minutes. For a generation of six characters, I unfortunately had to quit the generation after around 4 hours.

There is a faster prefix search program called VanitySearch (developed by Jean_Luc)
Using a GTX970 GeForce GPU, the search rate went from ~40 Mkeys/s with Vanitygen to ~240 Mkeys/s by switching to VanitySearch. I was thinking about buying a second video card to increase my search capability when I stumbled on Jean_Luc's program. The program itself gave me a nearly 6X increase in speed where another $400+ GPU would have only doubled the speed. The energy savings are also amazing as I no longer need to leave the computer running for days to find the desired prefix.