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...

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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