Seemed relevant given the hubbub about Facebook's Tor vanity address. I hold the record for longest "real word, proper case" prefix. This was done by loading an entire dictionary into oclvanitygen.
Unlike Tor addresses, you can actually do bespoke generation for other people without being able to get the private key. There are a few vanity pools that facilitate this, but unfortunately they don't reward partial work and aren't very popular.
I actually came up with a way to make a vanity address pool that would reward partial work, and got fairly fare along implementing it before I realized that the market for it is probably too small to be worth the trouble.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 13.9 ms ] threadUnlike Tor addresses, you can actually do bespoke generation for other people without being able to get the private key. There are a few vanity pools that facilitate this, but unfortunately they don't reward partial work and aren't very popular.
I actually came up with a way to make a vanity address pool that would reward partial work, and got fairly fare along implementing it before I realized that the market for it is probably too small to be worth the trouble.