What the fuck?
Can somebody 'splain to a poor old ignorant but skeptical chemist how long it'd take to generate an address like that, and what kind of hardware could do that?
You can reference to this thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112311.0
You can generate it offline to generate the addresses and private keys securely.
There's online version
https://joshua-zou.github.io/vanity-btc/, but I cannot recommend it since your private keys can be leaked out
Unless you're just testing out the waters.
It sure takes a good computational power and hardware to generate. I'm still in generating mine for over 30 minutes with my device now without success. I'll update my reply when I succeed.
Also, I skimmed through the thread and didn't do a thorough reading of it, but why are these coins considered burned?
This is where It gets confusing to me since the private key and public key should be shown to the person who generated them, unless they choose to discard them.
Vanity addresses are also compatible with some wallets like Electrum, Bitcoin core, ledger, treasure, Blue wallet others.
You can just import it there.