So is it profitable for hackers and how much easy it is generate such vanity address? And its cannot be done by a single individual because it's require much processing power and other things.So what are your thoughts on this?
It is not that hard and there is a step by step Guide to create your customized Vanity Bitcoin-Address and Guide How To Create Vanity Address with Vanitysearch.
There is also VanityPool for requesting vanity address, and websites like Originaladdress.net that can generate it but not sure how legit and safe it is to use.
To create address starting with musk it takes about 20 hours, with sat takes 20 minutes, and I created address starting with 69 in 1 minute.
I have no idea why people like Vanity addresses so much that they are even willing to send Bitcoin to scammers like it happened few days ago when someone sent 5 BTC to fake giveaway address starting with 1EMusk...
WhaleAlert reported it and they probably used youtube and websites fake Elon Musk websites like this:
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elon2x.com
elonceo.com
elonceo.com
https://twitter.com/whale_alert/status/1366510689720803330