From b4468d0aa993dd76e2db64e7f91cf9e8bc95e18b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Minh T. Nguyen" Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 21:54:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Correcting the math of the range of patterns for 1Kids* reported with Issue #38 --- ch04.asciidoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ch04.asciidoc b/ch04.asciidoc index 9416f070..4d88aa81 100644 --- a/ch04.asciidoc +++ b/ch04.asciidoc @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ In our first chapter, we introduced Eugenio, a children's charity director opera ===== 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" |=======