Greetings, Nostr!

Announcing noclvag, Nostr OpenCL Vanity Address Generator.

It's something I put together that uses OpenCL on GPU, instead of CPU, to search for npubs with a specific prefix. I used it to find my npub (npub1alex0jsan...). Much faster than CPU, in my case.

It's rough and probably has a bunch of bugs, but it seems to work. It's based on vanitygen-plusplus.

It's AGPL3+ licensed. I didn't upload it anywhere else. Feel free to upload it somewhere easy to access. The link below should last for around 90 days. I would have uploaded it myself, but I'm not aware of git forges that work over Tor and without email, etc.

noclvag uses the the split-key method described in VanitySearch to allow the user to ask a 3rd party to search for an npub for them without compromising their final nsec. I think it would be great if support for this is built into nsec bunkers (like Amber), and maybe some mining services can be spun up to make vanity npubs accessible to users.

A word of caution. This is generally not my field of expertise. Consider the software experimental.