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<p>How can the generation of a vanity address be accelerated?.</p>
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<p>By applying better hardware, faster CPU and GPU hardware. Or more of them.</p>
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<p>How can the brute-force algorithm be improved beyond trying a bunch of randomly selected private keys?</p>
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<p>If anyone knew an algorithm better than brute-force search for discovering the private key for a partial address, I believe Bitcoin would probably be broken and unusable.</p>

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<p>How can the generation of a vanity address be accelerated?. How can the brute-force algorithm be improved beyond trying a bunch of randomly selected private keys?</p>

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# Accelerate vanity address generation

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-10-14)

How can the generation of a vanity address be accelerated?. How can the brute-force algorithm be improved beyond trying a bunch of randomly selected private keys?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-10-14. Score: 2

> How can the generation of a vanity address be accelerated?.

By applying better hardware, faster CPU and GPU hardware. Or more of them.

> How can the brute-force algorithm be improved beyond trying a bunch of randomly selected private keys?

If anyone knew an algorithm better than brute-force search for discovering the private key for a partial address, I believe Bitcoin would probably be broken and unusable.


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