Wait! How are some folks getting custom npub addresses? Did not know that was a thing. #asknostr
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Brute forcing them.
cc nostr:nprofile1qqsyeqqz27jc32pgf8gynqtu90d2mxztykj94k0kmttxu37nk3lrktcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujummjd3ujuer9wchszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99uq3gamnwvaz7tm5v4ehgtn0wfk8jtnyv4mz7p7uyap (look at his npub, too)
Gigi too. Read it was to make it harder for imposters. It's also cool
i copped out by trying to post-hoc acclimate people to my npub tail by puttig axkl in my display name
I mined one for @SweetSats that starts with ‘sweet’ 😉
sweetl0gskmka0n5qevt7v2wj9q56ntwkmaeywffw4ftaucmcakquhns6h
So how does that work? I wanted to mine an npub for giggles with bfgreen - but the error msg I got said "prefix must be hex, so you can only use the following characters: 0123456789abcdef" that can't be true if you mined "sweet". It was Snowden's npub that made me notice this first.
That’s the difference between a hex key and a npub. There are different requirements but each have certain characters that can’t be used so it can be difficult to come up with a good one.
Also keep in mind difficulty is exponential– 4 or 5 character keys are do-able but every extra character doubles the expected time to mine.
I think I used rana btw, you can choose to mine either hex or npub formats, also you can mine multiple keys at once which is faster.
yeah 'bfgreen' was a bit extravagant and resource intensive. Besides, switching to a new npub pair is a LOT of work for the vanity of a few chars in the npub...
running rana now for fun, noticed that 'b' is not supported by Bech32 anyway - meh!
ooff! #Rana crunching npub pairs is a battery BLOWTORCH! Let's go..!!!
Running this on #elementary OS8 (which I really like BTW)
https://github.com/mleku/orly/releases
"vainstr" is the name of the tool you want. it's way way faster at mining addresses than any other tool i know of, uses the bitcoin core secp256k1 library
Rana lets you mine npubs
Some of us just made a name that fits the npub.