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Correcting the math of the range of patterns for 1Kids* reported with Issue #38

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Minh T. Nguyen 2014-06-03 21:54:28 -07:00 committed by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
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@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ In our first chapter, we introduced Eugenio, a children's charity director opera
===== Generating Vanity Addresses ===== Generating Vanity Addresses
It's important to realize that a bitcoin address is simply a number represented by symbols in the Base-58 alphabet. The search for a pattern like "1Kids" can be seen as searching for an address in the range from "1Kids11111111111111111111111111111" to "1Kidszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz". There are approximately 58^31^ (approximately 4.6 * 10^54^) addresses in that range, all starting with "1Kids". It's important to realize that a bitcoin address is simply a number represented by symbols in the Base-58 alphabet. The search for a pattern like "1Kids" can be seen as searching for an address in the range from "1Kids11111111111111111111111111111" to "1Kidszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz". There are approximately 58^29^ (approximately 1.4 * 10^51^) addresses in that range, all starting with "1Kids".
.The range of vanity addresses starting with "1Kids" .The range of vanity addresses starting with "1Kids"
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