From @mateon1 on Thu Aug 11 2016 23:47:14 GMT+0000 (UTC)
I’m interested whether there exists a vanity hash generator for IPFS public/private keypairs, similar to Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.
An example: findvanity QmIPFS -> QmIPFSistvz5r37jedMyXsTZ7i8AtrcpZJavoU8Jn7Ysju; keypair: [public key and private key]
Copied from original issue: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/158
From @mateon1 on Fri Aug 12 2016 11:00:46 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Hm, in that case, how were QmSoL nodes created? Are they running a modified version of IPFS where the peer ID doesn’t represent the pubkey?
From @Kubuxu on Fri Aug 12 2016 11:22:39 GMT+0000 (UTC)
No, it was just slow.
Something like that wouldn’t be possible as your node would refuse to connect to them.