running `rana`
Discussion
mining a novelty pubkey for an alt account
How many letters?
8 characters. May take a while...
Don’t think we’ve seen an 8-letter vanity yet! Good luck, tag me when you got it so I can bask in its glory 😁
Maybe I'm being overly ambitious. I think Snowden said his pubkey took a few days and his is only 7 chars.
Trying this on my laptop but I think I'm going to run it on my Ryzen desktop as well.
Ran on a 10 core Mac with an M1 for 5 days. Found 15 6 character npubs and none with >= 7 characters. Found the first 6 character one in 1.3 hours.
Have been running for another 6 days on a 12 core Intel Linux workstation and have not found any >= 7 character npubs yet.
The jump in difficulty from 6 to 7 characters is impressive.
Is there any guides on how to run it without any knowledge of programming etc? Wanna know how to run it on my Mac.
The github (https://github.com/grunch/rana) has pretty good step-by-step guidance on how to get it running using rust. Should only need to run a few commands (one to install rust, and the one to install rana).
If you're really allergic to the CLI there is also a web based one which will hopefully not steal your key :D https://hitony.com/nostrogen/