Hi, so I just started doing the vanity mining.
The program started up find and pulled available work and displayed:
"Searching for pattern: "1Aurareus" Reward: 0.096000 Value: 0.000002 BTC/Gkey
Difficulty: 50656515217834
Total value for current work: 0.000002 BTC/Gkey"
So is it only checking the generated keys against the one pattern "1Aurareus", or is it checking for all available patterns. Assumingily, it would be more profitable to check all the available patterns to see if you randomly get it. Is that possible or is the splitkey thing not allowing it. Or am I way off here?
Thanks!
This is from the script's help page (italics are mine):
Contacts the specified bounty pool server, downloads a list of active bounties, and attempts to generate the address with the best difficulty to reward ratio.
So unless there are two addresses for which this ratio is exactly the same you might be right; it would be better to check simultaneously then. If not it is better to focus on the most rewarding pattern.