Quote from: NotATether on May 08, 2022, 09:33:37 AM

I don't know if anyone has noticed but for extremely short strings like 1-5 characters, this can be provided as a web service with almost zero computational overhead, and can even be written in something like Python. It's something I want to toy with inventing in the future.

Quote from: NotATether on December 20, 2020, 12:07:05 PM

Quote from: WhyFhy on December 20, 2020, 11:48:21 AM

Anyone want to work 1qwertyuiop with me for a month or so and profit split?
I'll be running 2x v100s to solve.
Reward is 1.2BTC

AFAIK, VanitySearch can't connect systems together as nodes to divide the keys among for searching, it can only run an independent search when multiple systems are involved. So how are you going to make this work out without you and your prospective partner(s) searching a bunch of duplicate keys?

I'm down to help however I can, and your right , thats why we dont charge for up to 6 digits, 7 digits is only $2+ in some cases.
The idea of splitkey was the handler behind it , and the bridge it creates to multiple machines to prevent wasted work.
It took a while but splitkey backend software/server was the answer. The answer in general was pretty simple same public key, different/random base keys I didn't know this back then though.
My curiosity on this particular statement is what lead me down this rabbit hole/ learning experience. I kind of have you to thank for that.
If we didn't have to splitkeys (this cuts keysearching down 40-60%) we could provide around 9-11 digits in doable timespans for the price. Right now 7-9 digits via split keys are the only things that are feasible/doable with splitkeys unless we have more rigs contributing to the network. If we doubled down on mk/s or quadrupled down or even had a couple farms around the world running software , (software is not limited to just vanity searching) we could solve some bitcoin puzzles, clear out vanitypool, pitch in for corporate vanities with extended wallet prefixes, Im not gonna say we can crack wallets or anything but we could use it for good too such as modeling/ai/ml (Im not 100% on this but I dont see why not)