Thank you. 😄  

 Thank you. Will do! 😃  

 What about new joiners? 

 I think I can help speed that up significantly.

I put together something that uses OpenCL on GPU, instead of CPU. I call it noclvag. I used it to find my npub, which took a few days. My npub's prefix is alex0jsan, which is 45 bits. It was searching at a few hundred million iterations per second.

You can find more details in this note: https://njump.me/nevent1qyt8wumn8ghj7ct4w35zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpr4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mf0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uq35amnwvaz7tmzdaehgu3wd3jkxar4wf5kv7fwdejhgtcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uqzqd6mt9jq60s34za2zkmrshtv6srjsswjd2hk4f5q9act54qunge77nxq9p 

 Totally. Would love some feedback on this. Not my area of expertise.

The file mentioned in the announcement note is actually the source code. No binaries there.

I couldn't find a way to upload the source code to a git forge over Tor without KYC, email, etc. If you know a way, let me know. 

 Thanks! I'll take a look. 

 I managed to upload noclvag to a git forge. You can find it at https://codeberg.org/alex0jsan/noclvag

Please take a look and let me know what you think. 

 There's something that might help. It's called the split-key method. No idea if it's safe. It's used in VanitySearch: https://github.com/JeanLucPons/VanitySearch

I used that in a vanity npub generator I put together. I call it noclvag. You can find it here: https://njump.me/nevent1qyt8wumn8ghj7ct4w35zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpr4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mf0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uq35amnwvaz7tmzdaehgu3wd3jkxar4wf5kv7fwdejhgtcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uqzqd6mt9jq60s34za2zkmrshtv6srjsswjd2hk4f5q9act54qunge77nxq9p 

 Any thought on the split-key method? Would it make it more or less secure?

It's described here: https://github.com/JeanLucPons/VanitySearch 

 Hello again, Nostr.

I managed to upload noclvag to a git forge. You can find it at https://codeberg.org/alex0jsan/noclvag

Please give it a try and let me know what you think.

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpmljvl9pm8uuhf6pajvct9j2p7c6ah5tq8ae4k0hpy8auve5f957qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qqsrwk6evsxnuydgh2s4kcu96mx5qu5yr5n24a42dqp0wza9g8y6x0s4m0rn4 

 It was a bit difficult to upload the code to a git forge over tor, but I managed to do it a few days ago. You can find it at https://codeberg.org/alex0jsan/noclvag

Let me know what you think. 

 Yeah. alex0jsan stands for alex-ojisan, which means uncle alex. It's all deliberate.

On an older intel laptop with igpu, a 5 character prefix takes < 30 seconds using noclvag. I did several runs. Using rana, it took around 5 minutes for one run and around 30 minutes for another. 

 I think I can help.

I put together something that uses OpenCL on GPU, instead of CPU. I used it to find my npub. Much faster, in my case.

It's rough and probably has a bunch of bugs, but it seems to work. I call it noclvag, Nostr OpenCL Vanity Address Generator. It's based on vanitygen-plusplus.

It's AGPL3+ licensed. I didn't upload it anywhere else. Feel free to upload it somewhere easy to access. The link below should last for 90 days. I would have uploaded it myself, but I'm not aware of git forges that work over Tor and without email, etc.

The source code is here: https://oshi.at/BrkV/noclvag-v0.1.tar.gz

SHA256SUM: 989a0ca86297b4137a95c28a40fdabc2d736d8e91ffc26f27cf6c12039407f32  noclvag-v0.1.tar.gz