Yeah I can understand a little bit of CPU but it is maxing it out at 100% (overclocked 2500k) so I assumed it is also trying to look for keys on the CPU? Or does it really take that much CPU to verify the keys?

I can answer your last question: my laptop sometimes drops the CPU-speed 90% until I reboot (I think it's an overheat-protection). When this happens, it gets very slow. During this event, I can use oclvanitygen at the normal speed. As always, it uses full CPU, but for the end result it doesn't matter.

I can't answer your first question, my Nvidia is 25 times faster than my CPU and the output varies too much to see if the CPU adds 4% more to the total. I wish it wouldn't though, it makes my laptop slow to use during searches.

 I just tested my machines.  In one I have an Nvidia 970 and oclvanitygen uses ~16%CPU (5820K slightly overclocked).  In the other I have a radeon 7970 and oclvanitygen uses near 0% of the CPU (an i7-920) - it flickers occaisionally to 1%.  Wish I had a 980 for comparison.  I didn't anticipate that much difference in CPU requirement for the different cards.
 It didn't seem to matter if I used a list or just a single address, the results were the same.

Has anyone set up their own external GPU rig? I've been looking into DIYing it but don't have any experience with builds. I'm still hoping to get a decent GPU to create some vanity addresses.

You would need a decent PSU to power multiple cards but it shouldn't be that hard to build one.

Alternatively, you could just submit vanities you need to the vanity pool at http://vanitypool.appspot.com/ . As long as you have a decent fee for the difficulty, someone should find it pretty quickly.

24/7 for 3 years is pretty impressive. What type of hardware are you running in those rigs and how many MH/s you getting with them combined?

Unlike coin miners you get more power using full 16x slots and extensions out of vanitygen, so I heard.

is there an estimated rate of finding?

Hi guys,

I just signed up to this forum to submit a bug in the current version of >oclvanitygen.exe<!
If you go and see the help for the .exe file it does NOT show the option of -P [Public Key] (big P, case sensitive) which specifies the public key to look for.
If you just ignore the help and DO IT it works. It mines correctly for the priv key part and you can correctly combine them with your private key to get the correct, mined address.

But it is very confusing that it is missing in the help.


Further I can't run the >oclvanityminer.exe< and the >oclvanityminer64.exe< without the -S parameter. I think this could come from an allocation problem due to my graphics card memory exceeds the limit of a 32 bit integer, if you see lower you clearly can identify an overflow at the "allocation"-row. But see yourself, you can probably figure out better what's wrong there. All necessary details are included I think. If you need further details please feel free to just say and I post it.
I hope I could help to improve this software even if it's not likely it's still being developed since the last release is almost a few years ago.....
There are some other versions of vanitygen like "vanitygen plus" or "supervanitygen" but I made bad expericence with vanitygen plus so I didnt even tested supervanitygen. I was curious because of the possibility to also mine altcoin addresses but it failed to mine bitcoins when I used the -C BTC command there. but without it worked. so I think that is much toooo buggy currently.
Because I don't have every learned C/C++ i'm unable to figure out what's wrong in the source by myself. :/ In none of the vanitygen derivations.

Maybe this brings some new Life to all this old threads^^

Here's the mentioned data:

\Desktop\vanitygen 0.22>oclvanityminer64.exe -u https://vanitypool.appspot.com/ -a 18MSZPYedk7AKoHBux4VRm92o9WBanUpfH -i 60 -v
* About to connect() to vanitypool.appspot.com port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 216.58.213.244...
* connected
* Connected to vanitypool.appspot.com (216.58.213.244) port 443 (#0)
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*   CAfile: cacert.pem
  CApath: none
* SSL connection using ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
* Server certificate:
*        subject: C=US; ST=California; L=Mountain View; O=Google Inc; CN=*.appspot.com
*        start date: 2017-02-22 08:57:00 GMT
*        expire date: 2017-05-17 08:57:00 GMT
*        subjectAltName: vanitypool.appspot.com matched
*        issuer: C=US; O=Google Inc; CN=Google Internet Authority G2
*        SSL certificate verify ok.
> GETgetWork HTTP/1.1
Host: vanitypool.appspot.com
Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< X-Cloud-Trace-Context: 2836ba9e191148d1b4f478e129677ef6;o=1
< Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 19:18:46 GMT
< Server: Google Frontend
< Content-Length: 6458
< Alt-Svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="36,35,34"
<
* Connection #0 to host vanitypool.appspot.com left intact
* Closing connection #0
Device: GeForce GTX 1080
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation (10de)
Driver: 378.66
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Version: OpenCL 1.2 CUDA
Max compute units: 20
Max workgroup size: 1024
Global memory: 0
Max allocation: -2147483648
OpenCL compiler flags: -DPRAGMA_UNROLL -cl-nv-verbose
Loading kernel binary e4d5ddb8154a91f41105d559efd6c8da.oclbin
Grid size: 2560x4096
Modular inverse: 20480 threads, 512 ops each
Available bounties:
Pattern: "1AnonNinja" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1JaimeRudy" Reward: 0.017600 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "DAKERTTUL1" Reward: 0.032000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1Fizzisist" Reward: 0.080000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1shaitand" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1p5oPotCom" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1Satan666" Reward: 0.080000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1botwebDE" Reward: 0.016000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "11111111" Reward: 0.112000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1Rastafari" Reward: 0.480000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1RedCross" Reward: 0.080000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1SatoshiNak" Reward: 0.080000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1TimeLock" Reward: 0.015200 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1Wednesday" Reward: 0.080000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1WiKiLEAKS" Reward: 0.080000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1qwertyuiop" Reward: 1.200000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Batch of 8, total value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1EvanAhern" Reward: 0.040000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1BitSnitch" Reward: 0.040000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1gorynych" Reward: 0.012000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1TheDoctor" Reward: 0.400000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1BruJoLoKo" Reward: 0.014400 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1MATTS1GN1" Reward: 0.012613 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1T1PMATT1" Reward: 0.013374 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Batch of 2, total value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1BETBTCcom" Reward: 0.200000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1zarodinu" Reward: 0.012000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1ChristosP" Reward: 0.032000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1ThePiachu" Reward: 0.800000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1TheMatrix" Reward: 0.080000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1Joe1Katz1" Reward: 0.121600 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1BTC888com" Reward: 0.200000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1ThankYou" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1Thorsten" Reward: 0.033600 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Batch of 2, total value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1RoseCross" Reward: 0.008080 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1KeesdeWit" Reward: 0.012000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1AustriaFTW" Reward: 0.016000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1bigCmine" Reward: 0.026400 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1TREASURE" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1CHRiSoLDS" Reward: 0.160000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1AMBASSADE" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1iJuniorTV" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1MoLeCuLaR" Reward: 0.120000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1o4pQnqDmo" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Searching for pattern: "1BETBTCcom" Reward: 0.200000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Prefix difficulty:     2938077882634386 1BETBTCcom
Difficulty: 2938077882634386
Using OpenCL prefix matcher
clWaitForEvents(NDRange,0): Unknown code -9999
clEnqueueMapBuffer(4): CL_INVALID_COMMAND_QUEUE
ERROR: Could not map row buffer for slot 1
ERROR: allocation failure?
^C

(In the Line "ERROR: allocation failure?" the program stops, hangs and never continues.)

This is what it looks like when I use the -S parameter and it runs correctly:

\Desktop\vanitygen 0.22>oclvanityminer64.exe -u https://vanitypool.appspot.com/ -a 18MSZPYedk7AKoHBux4VRm92o9WBanUpfH -i 60 -vS
* About to connect() to vanitypool.appspot.com port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 216.58.213.244...
* connected
* Connected to vanitypool.appspot.com (216.58.213.244) port 443 (#0)
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*   CAfile: cacert.pem
  CApath: none
* SSL connection using ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
* Server certificate:
*        subject: C=US; ST=California; L=Mountain View; O=Google Inc; CN=*.appspot.com
*        start date: 2017-02-22 08:57:00 GMT
*        expire date: 2017-05-17 08:57:00 GMT
*        subjectAltName: vanitypool.appspot.com matched
*        issuer: C=US; O=Google Inc; CN=Google Internet Authority G2
*        SSL certificate verify ok.
> GETgetWork HTTP/1.1
Host: vanitypool.appspot.com
Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< X-Cloud-Trace-Context: 4b5dd0691707df1d3fbfdc4786826cbf
< Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 19:21:21 GMT
< Server: Google Frontend
< Content-Length: 6458
< Alt-Svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="36,35,34"
<
* Connection #0 to host vanitypool.appspot.com left intact
* Closing connection #0
Device: GeForce GTX 1080
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation (10de)
Driver: 378.66
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Version: OpenCL 1.2 CUDA
Max compute units: 20
Max workgroup size: 1024
Global memory: 0
Max allocation: -2147483648
OpenCL compiler flags: -cl-nv-verbose
Loading kernel binary 0f44c6b657da2363a905579b45bb3354.oclbin
Grid size: 2560x4096
Modular inverse: 20480 threads, 512 ops each
Available bounties:
Pattern: "1AnonNinja" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1JaimeRudy" Reward: 0.017600 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "DAKERTTUL1" Reward: 0.032000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1Fizzisist" Reward: 0.080000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1shaitand" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1p5oPotCom" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1Satan666" Reward: 0.080000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1botwebDE" Reward: 0.016000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "11111111" Reward: 0.112000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1Rastafari" Reward: 0.480000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1RedCross" Reward: 0.080000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1SatoshiNak" Reward: 0.080000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1TimeLock" Reward: 0.015200 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1Wednesday" Reward: 0.080000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1WiKiLEAKS" Reward: 0.080000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1qwertyuiop" Reward: 1.200000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Batch of 8, total value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1EvanAhern" Reward: 0.040000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1BitSnitch" Reward: 0.040000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1gorynych" Reward: 0.012000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1TheDoctor" Reward: 0.400000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1BruJoLoKo" Reward: 0.014400 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1MATTS1GN1" Reward: 0.012613 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1T1PMATT1" Reward: 0.013374 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Batch of 2, total value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1BETBTCcom" Reward: 0.200000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1zarodinu" Reward: 0.012000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1ChristosP" Reward: 0.032000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1ThePiachu" Reward: 0.800000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1TheMatrix" Reward: 0.080000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1Joe1Katz1" Reward: 0.121600 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1BTC888com" Reward: 0.200000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1ThankYou" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1Thorsten" Reward: 0.033600 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Batch of 2, total value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1RoseCross" Reward: 0.008080 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1KeesdeWit" Reward: 0.012000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1AustriaFTW" Reward: 0.016000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1bigCmine" Reward: 0.026400 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1TREASURE" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1CHRiSoLDS" Reward: 0.160000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1AMBASSADE" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1iJuniorTV" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1MoLeCuLaR" Reward: 0.120000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Pattern: "1o4pQnqDmo" Reward: 0.008000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Searching for pattern: "1BETBTCcom" Reward: 0.200000 Value: 0.000000 BTC/MkeyHr
Prefix difficulty:     2938077882634386 1BETBTCcom
Difficulty: 2938077882634386
Using OpenCL prefix matcher
[53.91 Mkey/s][total 377487360][Prob 0.0%][50% in 1.2y]                        ^C
C:\Users\

It's pretty f***ed that I can't run this without the -S parameter because I'm loosing roughly 20-25 MH/s through that option.
So a solution would really be cool that I don't have to use the oclvanitygen to do the same manually but having the full power of my pc.


Kind regards, I hope this helps!

~Style



Post Scriptum: If you are interested in a GUI for Windows for keyconv that just works with the original program, not interrupting it's own program, feel free to post here to get the source code (only availabe in C#) or the executable itself.

Vanitygen hasnt been updated in a while by samr7 but you can check out my fork with this fix or wyseninjas fork

https://github.com/exploitagency/vanitygen-plus

If i forgot to add this pr just open an issue and i will add it to my repo and include it in next release.