Litecoin Vanity Address Generator
This is a simple add-on for your Node. It uses the spare processing power of the Pi Node to create a cool personalized litecoin address and private key.
Another great reason to run a node on the Raspberry Pi.
Another great reason to run a node on the Raspberry Pi.
Create your node first from the tabs at the top of this page.
I am frequently asked on reddit when I announce the completion of one of the node guides here, questions like "Can I mine on the Node?" or "How much money does it make?" and things like that.
The nodes are of course essential to the network, but it's a rather humble task. The owner doesn't really benefit....
Until now!
How would you like your own personalized litecoin address?
See how below:
The nodes are of course essential to the network, but it's a rather humble task. The owner doesn't really benefit....
Until now!
How would you like your own personalized litecoin address?
See how below:
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This image shows the current resources used by my Raspberry Pi litecoin node (with display). The largest system load is caused by the display, and bitcoind only spikes in resource demand on receipt of a new block, which is temporary. There is plenty of CPU available for another task. |
Enter a program called "VanityGen" by samr7. github.com/samr7/vanitygen
This nifty program creates the addresses and private key for you to use.
Simply define what text you want in your address, specify how many system resources you want to use in finding it and send it on it's search...
To Install:
There is a dependency the Pi doesn't currently have called PCRE, install it with
sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev
Then download VanityGen:
git clone https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen.git
Navigate to it's instalation folder:
cd vanitygen
And tell it to compile with:
make
And that's it! we're ready to go!
This nifty program creates the addresses and private key for you to use.
Simply define what text you want in your address, specify how many system resources you want to use in finding it and send it on it's search...
To Install:
There is a dependency the Pi doesn't currently have called PCRE, install it with
sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev
Then download VanityGen:
git clone https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen.git
Navigate to it's instalation folder:
cd vanitygen
And tell it to compile with:
make
And that's it! we're ready to go!
Options:
./vanitygen -runs the program
-t 2 -designates how many CPU threads to use (1 or 2 recommended on the pi)
-i -case insensitive on result
-X 48 -designates the version of address. [Litecoin is dec 48 (0x30) on mainnet]
L<xxx> -all addresses must start with L then replace <xxx> with the string/custom text (Dan) or numbers (123) you want to find
The longer the specified Lxxxxxxx the longer the search will take. Adding just one letter increases the predicted time for a match massively. But by all means be optimistic as this is just spare processing power in the background of the node. Use it!
./vanitygen -runs the program
-t 2 -designates how many CPU threads to use (1 or 2 recommended on the pi)
-i -case insensitive on result
-X 48 -designates the version of address. [Litecoin is dec 48 (0x30) on mainnet]
L<xxx> -all addresses must start with L then replace <xxx> with the string/custom text (Dan) or numbers (123) you want to find
The longer the specified Lxxxxxxx the longer the search will take. Adding just one letter increases the predicted time for a match massively. But by all means be optimistic as this is just spare processing power in the background of the node. Use it!
If the search is unreasonably long terminate the search using CTRL+c
I recommend using the "screen" feature again to allow the search to continue in the background. The tutorial for this can be found in the node guide.
Using the command
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displays used system resources
This last screenshot shows the system resources used by VanityGen with the -t 2 option specified. It is limited to 200% CPU (100% represents one CPU thread). This leaves one thread for the Chrome display and one thread for Bitcoind.
Happy hunting and good luck!
**Note: Bounties do exist to earn bitcoin by solving difficult to find addresses. Check out https://vanitypool.appspot.com/availableWork (I'm unsure how active this is)
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displays used system resources
This last screenshot shows the system resources used by VanityGen with the -t 2 option specified. It is limited to 200% CPU (100% represents one CPU thread). This leaves one thread for the Chrome display and one thread for Bitcoind.
Happy hunting and good luck!
**Note: Bounties do exist to earn bitcoin by solving difficult to find addresses. Check out https://vanitypool.appspot.com/availableWork (I'm unsure how active this is)
