How would i request:    1klondike......  ?

ahh, thanks for the heads up. I tried the site, but keep getting told my public key is too short. i tried with 2 different 'receiving addresses', should i be grabbing my key from elsewhere?

Does this site work with compressed or uncompressed public keys?

For the miner it would be sufficient to use a counter as private key as the security of the resulting key has to lie entirely in the private key of the requesting party?

Vanity Pool is currently undergoing a big update. We are moving form BitcoinQT to Blockchain.info for our wallet services to speed things up. If anyone has unpaid work that they wish to be publicly available on the Pool, please check your work URL for the newest address.

Updating the data took about 5 minutes. After that I gave the transaction that credited the new addresses some time to confirm, but decided to make the site live for the miners before we got a full confirmation. So the website was down for about 20 minutes I think, and after that it was on but might not be able to pay out for another hour or two. As I checked nobody tried to claim a reward before we got a confirmation, so everything worked out fine.

And a new update for the Pool - we now do more detailed checks for whether a work is solvable, meaning that there shouldn't be any more unsolvable work in the Pool.

Either i have been extremely lucky or this really helped a lot, i hit an 8 chars today. 

And thanks for the ticker!

Hi, I'm just starting out with vanity mining, seeing if it might still put this old ATI 5850 to good use. So I'm using this command to run the miner:

    ./oclvanityminer -D 0:1,grid=1024x1024 -u https://vanitypool.appspot.com/ -a 1mybitcoinpublickey

I see this:

    Searching for pattern: "1TioKiko" Reward: 0.040000 Value: 0.000001 BTC/Gkey
    Difficulty: 51529903411245
    Total value for current work: 0.000001 BTC/Gkey
    [23.62 Mkey/s][total 10195304448][Prob 0.0%][50% in 17.5d]

I understand, it can only search for one of the rewards at a time, and it has chose to try to find the reward for the "1TioKiko" address. I see from https://vanitypool.appspot.com/availableWork that the lavishness of this reward is 3.3e-06 for a 0.04btc reward. However, I also see the reward for "1Wednesday" is 0.08 and it only has a lavishness of 4.6e-08, much lower than "1TioKiko".

So has it chosen a non-optimal reward to mine for here? Can someone offer advice on the best practise for using a mining software, currently. I still haven't figured out what I'm supposed to do with the "compressed keys" update. Piachu, can you give me some guidance here?