# How To Easily Create Custom Vanity Bitcoin Addresses | Step By Step Guide! **URL:** \ **Category:** Tutorials & Methods\ **Tags:** tools, tips-tricks, trading\ **Created:** [November 10, 2019, 10:57am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-easily-create-custom-vanity-bitcoin-addresses-step-by-step-guide/61973 "2019-11-10T10:57:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aina](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/aina/32/167469_2.png) [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 10:57am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-easily-create-custom-vanity-bitcoin-addresses-step-by-step-guide/61973/1 "2019-11-10T10:57:31Z")
**This guide will teach you how to generate the private keys for a custom bitcoin address on your own computer.** For example, if your name was Bob _you can create the address __1 **Bob** PRH7rDXcPxJs6LX3MgFAS9DY4iV__ or whatever your name or word is you want!_ It’s all done on your computer locally & open source code so your private key is secure. Let’s get started! # IMPORTANT: MUST READ ``` This guide is written for WINDOWS, but it is able to be done on macOS & Linux as well. ``` 1. The speed of the generation depends on how powerful your CPU & GPU is 2. **This is a C/GPU intense program,** make sure you have adequate cooling. If it’s taking too long or making your PC lag or heat up, press CTRL+C on command prompt to end the program. 3. Longer & certain phrases will take significantly longer to create. See the wiki page linked at the bottom for approx times. **Step 1.** Download Windows x86+x64 binaries [here.](https://github.com/downloads/samr7/vanitygen/vanitygen-0.22-win.zip) PGP signature available [here.](http://insight.gotdns.org/~samr7/vanitygen-0.22-win.zip.asc) ``` Get the source from [GitHub.](https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen) Makefiles for Linux and Mac OS X are here as well. ``` **Step 2.** Download & extract the folder somewhere easy to remember such as your desktop. **Step 3.** Using command prompt, cd to the folder you extracted. ``` For example: you open cmd & see C:\Users\[your_pc]> You would type: ``` `cd desktop\vanity*` **Step 4.** Now your command prompt location should read: C:\Users[your\_pc]\Desktop\vanitygen-0.20-win\>. You can begin to create the address now. ``` For 64 bit PCs type the following: vanitygen64 1[your_text]. For example, if you wanted to create the address 1Bob, you would type: ``` `vanitygen64 1Bob` ``` For 32 bit PCs simply leave out the "64" ``` **Step 5.** Depending on how long of a word you chose, it will take some time to create. For 3 letter addresses its pretty much instant. 1Bob is instant to create. ``` 4 letters take slightly longer but not much. Each additional letter will significantly add to the amount of time it takes, so try & keep it under 5. If it's taking too long or making your PC lag or heat up, press CTRL+C on command prompt to end the program. ``` **Step 6.** Once it’s finished you will see your public key (your address) and the private key. Take note of the private key & load it into Electrum or whatever wallet you’re using. ``` You can google for how to do this, it varies slightly by each wallet. And that's it! You've created a vanity bitcoin address to receive bitcoin. ``` For more info on generation times & speeds you can read this [wiki page](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen). Advanced: You can also search for regular expressions instead of just prefixes. [See here for more info](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0) > **NOTE** : This is a leaked method, and I didn’t write it, just found it by anonymous help & confirmed it’s working and worth method, so use it at your own risk, in fact, no harm at all, good luck! ## ENJOY & HAPPY LEARNING! 👍