Short answer is no.
The ASIC based miners only support the SHA and or Scrypt algorithms.

But 80% of the processing time for vanitycoins is related to the ECSDA calculations,
and there is also a RIMD hashing involved. These last two protocols are not supported by the ASIC's.

You would need GPU hashing for this one, and looking at the length of your prefix.... a lot of time.
each char is roughly a multiple of 60;  in your case you might need to run the program for
60^14/hashingspeed seconds.
Even when hashing 10GH/s that would take 25 million years.... give or take...

@Kangaderoo, yes, that's why I thought maybe ASIC will help to speed up the process and lower the ETA but since you said ECSDA and RIMD hashing protocols are being used for finding an address, can you please elaborate on how those protocols work technically?

@shorena thanks for your correction ... Because uppercase "i" and lowercase "l" looks same and may be confused upon, is this the reason why base58 excluded this ? Then zero and uppercase "o" must be excluded too ! Right ??

Thats pretty much impossible, 6 characters vanity address is quite easy because site im using offering it for free, but more than that is quite expensive.

Any vanity address generation site worth looking at will use split key vanity address generation, in which they can generate the vanity address but not know the private key.  Any site that doesn't use this shouldn't be trusted.  Also any site that does use it, but provides your half of the key themselves, should not be trusted.  Search the web for 'split key vanity' for more information.

For technical details, see this post: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/81865.msg901491#msg901491
For an overly simplified explanation: you generate a private/public key pair and give the person generating the vanity address the public key.  They pass that public key to vanitygen and ask it to find a private key which combined with that public key gives the vanity address.  However, that combination does not yield the correct private key for that vanity address, for that they would have to combine the private key with your private key (which, obviously, you shouldn't give them).  Once you receive their private key, you combine it with your private key, and the result is the private key for the vanity address.

So no, there's no exploit possible there in terms of getting the private key to the vanity address.

As for using bitaddress.org to combine split keys, that's up to the end-user whether or not to trust a third party service for that portion of the procedure.  The site can be downloaded and used offline for the (rightfully) paranoid.  There's also the keyconv utility that's part of vanitygen that'll combine two private keys for this sort of purpose.

Of course 'the best way' is to do it yourself, but most people don't have quite as much GPU computing power as some of the services or places like vanitypool

Most vanity services have shut down, period, because there just isn't enough interest in it or the interest that's there is for vanities so difficult to generate (on average) that they'd have to charge fairly high fees up front which discourages people from requesting those vanities.
While a vanity pool that would work similar to Bitcoin mining pools might bring about a change in that, the lack of interest makes that a lot of effort in development that doesn't seem likely to pay off.  Couple that with all the efforts to discourage vanity addresses (not sure if it was this thread where somebody mentioned a service that would involve vanity addresses as part of an identification scheme, but... that's a bad idea), or even discourage the use of addresses at all (the whole "users should never have to see an address" mantra), and the waning popularity is easily explained.


Odds are that vanitypool ( https://vanitypool.appspot.com ) is one of the few still reliably operational.
Looks like vanityamp finally disappeared (too bad, was a slick site)
http://vircurvault.com/order/bitcoin/vanity/custom is also still up, but pricing is fairly high (1-4 characters at BTC0.05 means you'd better generate that yourself).
No idea if gadman2 ( https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/270180 ) or devthedev ( https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/347591 ) still offer their services.

I think there were a few other people offering to generate vanity addresses on a one-off basis.  Heck, you could post your public key part here along with the desired vanity, see if anybody's interested in trying to generate it, and work out the details of payment (escrow etc.) between the two of you

I will give it a try as well. 6 symbols takes ~5 hours (~6w -S) for a 50% chance to find one on my GPU. I can let it run in safe mode over night. If you dont want to post the pubkey publicly you can use my PGP key (see profile) to encrypt it.

What are each of your charges per character?  Or is it free upto 6 characters? I'll gladly try out for one address with both of you

Sure Ill go for it aswell, with the two of us, were sure to find it.

any recent build of oclvangen for windows?