hopefully. what's the tiny phone? sounds cool.
also I didn't realize who you were until I saw the end of your pubkey. that's such a great trick - I wish I had done that. too late now
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ah, it's never too late but it does take time to move to a new identity, in the sense of keeping your followers... i should really make a binary release for my vanity key miner, it's pretty fast, can get a 5 letter key - start, end, or anywhere in the key in about 15-60 minutes, or so, depending on your hardware
when i made the miner in the first place it took days to generate it with the slow signature library i was using, i basically made a pact with myself that i would stay off nostr until i had this new key... was a funny time... october 2023...
if I could get a really good vanity key I might take the follower hit. if they really like me they'll come along, and if not then I don't need em
https://github.com/mleku/x-realy/releases/tag/vainstr-v1.0.0
if you are running any recent linux this binary should be the ticket. you can see here an example of it generating a key:
?jwt=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJnaXRodWIuY29tIiwiYXVkIjoicmF3LmdpdGh1YnVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbSIsImtleSI6ImtleTUiLCJleHAiOjE3NDg2Mjg0MDcsIm5iZiI6MTc0ODYyODEwNywicGF0aCI6Ii8xNDY3NTU2MzQvNDQ5MzQxMzQwLTc4MTgyZDBjLTM0NTYtNDM5NC1hMzg4LWJkMTE0YTk2MzhhNy5wbmc_WC1BbXotQWxnb3JpdGhtPUFXUzQtSE1BQy1TSEEyNTYmWC1BbXotQ3JlZGVudGlhbD1BS0lBVkNPRFlMU0E1M1BRSzRaQSUyRjIwMjUwNTMwJTJGdXMtZWFzdC0xJTJGczMlMkZhd3M0X3JlcXVlc3QmWC1BbXotRGF0ZT0yMDI1MDUzMFQxODAxNDdaJlgtQW16LUV4cGlyZXM9MzAwJlgtQW16LVNpZ25hdHVyZT03MTQ5YjAwNzlhMDRmYTE2YzIyMDUwNTA5ZjI5YTcxYTZiMjg1ODNiZGQ0ZTU0MzZhZGY1MWZmNTJmYzQzNDRlJlgtQW16LVNpZ25lZEhlYWRlcnM9aG9zdCJ9.uu7IjisMQIFod8QNe9781sTxGxLHpzAj5j3Turfnnco
i used the btcd btcec secp256k1 library before, and it took like 3 days... now as you can see, a key with merely 5 letters potentially not even a minute on hardware like mine (which you can see in the image also what it is)
There is also a gpu miner https://codeberg.org/alex0jsan/noclvag
oh, the tiny phone... was just some silly thing i found on amazon... it has an old school white OLED display of like 10x2 characters lol, the buttons are really small but it's usable, and so small it could even be a key fob.