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		ck2 on Feb 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin Ponzi scheme I'm impressed by the vanity address, must have taken a lot of cpu power to hash that one out.

GigabyteCoin on Feb 8, 2014 | [–]

CPU power, maybe. Vanitygen works with GPU power now, however.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen

kordless on Feb 8, 2014 | [–]

Probability on a low end machine is 50% in 2.6 hours.

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