How To Easily Create Custom Vanity Bitcoin Addresses | Step By Step Guide!

This guide will teach you how to generate the private keys for a custom bitcoin address on your own computer.

For example, if your name was Bob you can create the address 1BobPRH7rDXcPxJs6LX3MgFAS9DY4iV or whatever your name or word is you want!

It’s all done on your computer locally & open source code so your private key is secure. Let’s get started!

IMPORTANT: MUST READ

   This guide is written for WINDOWS, but it is able to be done on macOS & Linux as well.
  1. The speed of the generation depends on how powerful your CPU & GPU is

  2. This is a C/GPU intense program, make sure you have adequate cooling. If it’s taking too long or making your PC lag or heat up, press CTRL+C on command prompt to end the program.

  3. Longer & certain phrases will take significantly longer to create. See the wiki page linked at the bottom for approx times.

             (generating the address starting with "1Bitcoin..." would take several days. Under 5 letters is typically less than a few seconds but can take up to a couple of minutes)
    

Step 1. Download Windows x86+x64 binaries here. PGP signature available here.

        Get the source from [GitHub.](https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen)  Makefiles for Linux and Mac OS X are here as well.

Step 2. Download & extract the folder somewhere easy to remember such as your desktop.

Step 3. Using command prompt, cd to the folder you extracted.

        For example: you open cmd & see C:\Users\[your_pc]>

        You would type:

cd desktop\vanity*

Step 4. Now your command prompt location should read: C:\Users[your_pc]\Desktop\vanitygen-0.20-win>. You can begin to create the address now.

         For 64 bit PCs type the following: vanitygen64 1[your_text]. For example, if you wanted to create the address 1Bob, you would type:

vanitygen64 1Bob

        For 32 bit PCs simply leave out the "64"

Step 5. Depending on how long of a word you chose, it will take some time to create. For 3 letter addresses its pretty much instant. 1Bob is instant to create.

         4 letters take slightly longer but not much. Each additional letter will significantly add to the amount of time it takes, so try & keep it under 5.

                    If it's taking too long or making your PC lag or heat up, press CTRL+C on command prompt to end the program.

Step 6. Once it’s finished you will see your public key (your address) and the private key. Take note of the private key & load it into Electrum or whatever wallet you’re using.

         You can google for how to do this, it varies slightly by each wallet. And that's it! You've created a vanity bitcoin address to receive bitcoin.

For more info on generation times & speeds you can read this wiki page.

Advanced: You can also search for regular expressions instead of just prefixes. See here for more info

NOTE: This is a leaked method, and I didn’t write it, just found it by anonymous help & confirmed it’s working and worth method, so use it at your own risk, in fact, no harm at all, good luck!

ENJOY & HAPPY LEARNING! :+1:

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