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Bitcoin also uses OpenSSL, and I noticed that they feed OpenSSL a seed on Windows. Is this perhaps required for Vanitygen for Windows, too(unless it already uses it)?

The OpenSSL documentation also states

Then check out this thread https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/113496.0

Note : a simple restart of oclvanityminer made it mine for vanity addresses again.

Same problem just happened with smar7's version.

question about the [50% in XXX] number.

when I run oclvanityminer i get one number for XXX, but if I manually plug in the public key and pattern to oclvanitygen, i get a very different XXX number. the one from oclvanityminer reports in "hours" while oclvanitygen reports in "years".

i haven't read this whole thread so i might missed it somewhere, but aren't those two values supposed to be the same since we're still basically solo mining with oclvanityminer?

First make sure GPU is used, you can see verbose output with -v
If CPU is used (much lower Key/s) use device specifier -d or -D  like -D 0:0 or -d 0

to list all patterns for a specific public key, use -f patternfile.txt
put in the file all patterns, one pattern per line

use -k to continue search after you found match

The speeds should be the same, i tried it myselves and i have the same speeds

i have an old laptop   its saying it will take 42 days to generate the address....is this normal....and will it harm my computer?

Very cool program, thanks samr7!

I got lucky and generated my first case sensitive 5 letter vanity address in 24 hours (50% in 9.3 days)

I had to use CPU since my GPU is a Pitcairn, has anyone got the 7k AMD series working through opencl yet?

(no tips for now cause I'm illiquid in BTC, but I'll get you sometime after I get unlocked and working again.)

It would be possible with an FPGA, but not your FPGA miner, which was specifically made for mining.

Mining iteratively changes four bytes in a 512 byte data set and hashes it twice using the SHA256() algorithm, it then compares the beginning of the resulting hash to see if it contains all zero bits, and returns the value of the hashed data that met the challenge. This is likely all the FPGA is programmed to do.

Bitcoin address requires multiple steps with different algorithms and different criteria:

Generate a cryptographically secure random 64 bit private key.
Iterate through multiple increments of this key.
For each iteration, generate a public bitcoin address from the key:

• Generate a ECDSA secp256k1 public key for the private key
• SHA256 hash the public key
• RipeMD160 hash the above result
• SHA256 hash the result twice to generate a checksum
• Convert to a Base58 address prefix

check result against all vanity criteria being searched for, if not, do it all again.

You can see this requires much more code and algorithms than mining. So no.