lousy_bitcoins
Utility to try crack bitcoins private keys generated from weak passphrases. (by joarleymoraes)
vanitygen-plus
Vanitygen PLUS! Generate vanity address for 100+ cryptocoins including: BTC, LTC, LBRY, UNO, DASH, DIAMOND, DOGE, FEATHER, GROESTL, MONA, PEERCOIN, VERTCOIN, ZIFTR, CROWN, GAME, PINK and MORE! Removed the prefix length limit, now capable of searching for longer prefixes... Altcoin encryption and decryption of private keys is also supported. (by exploitagency)
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| 10.0 | 0.0 | |
| almost 7 years ago | over 2 years ago | |
| Python | C | |
| - | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
lousy_bitcoins
Posts with mentions or reviews of lousy_bitcoins.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-01.
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where can I download software on PC to brute force bitcoin? just for the fun to try
You can have a look at https://github.com/joarleymoraes/lousy_bitcoins
vanitygen-plus
Posts with mentions or reviews of vanitygen-plus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-01.
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where can I download software on PC to brute force bitcoin? just for the fun to try
That said there is software for making vanity addresses (eg addresses starting with a prefix you want like 1Boat) https://github.com/exploitagency/vanitygen-plus You could give this thing whole addresses. But that chance of finding the private key for an address is essentially zero.
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The 32 BTC puzzle now stands at ~$4 Million. No one has cracked it
Vanity gen has a mode (-Z) where you can specify the private key prefix. One could play the lottery without writing any code themselves. https://github.com/exploitagency/vanitygen-plus
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Generate vanity PGP keys with custom fingerprints (2017)
Also of note is the vanitygen-plus [0] project, allowing you to generate custom cryptocurrency adresses.
[0] https://github.com/exploitagency/vanitygen-plus
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How do some people e.g Cobra have their name in their address?
If you know what you are doing you can use this tool to generate your own: https://github.com/exploitagency/vanitygen-plus
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lousy_bitcoins and vanitygen-plus you can also consider the following projects:
brainflayer - A proof-of-concept cracker for cryptocurrency brainwallets and other low entropy key algorithms.
bitaddress.org - JavaScript Client-Side Bitcoin Wallet Generator
btcrecover - BTCRecover is an open source wallet password and seed recovery tool. For seed based recovery, this is primarily useful in situations where you have lost/forgotten parts of your mnemonic, or have made an error transcribing it. (So you are either seeing an empty wallet or gettign an error that your seed is invalid) For wallet password or passphrase recovery, it is primarily useful if you have a reasonable idea about what your password might be.
scallion - GPU-based Onion Hash generator