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There is a beautiful Bitcoin-address 1111111111111111111114oLvT2 (https://blockchain.info/address/1111111111111111111114oLvT2)
Its Hash160 is 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Most interesting is that people send coins to that address, then nobody will get these coins :(

There are plenty of other beauitful addresses
Try hash160 = 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001, and so on
Maybe one day we will be able to crack those (ie crack sha256 + crack ripemd160 + crack secp256K1)

Seems like a nice amount of Bitcoins in that address. A shame for them just to lay around.

It would be nice if they share the bitcoins.

They?

https://blockchain.info/address/1111111111111111111114oLvT2

No. Transactions     43     
Total Received    2.94062348 BTC    
Final Balance    2.94062348 BTC

I hope I had that address ahahaha :)

Me too!  8) Any BTC sent there will be locked forever!

Isn't that address valid, just probably the hardest of any to get?

It's valid but I doubt anyone will ever find the private key to get a Hash160 of 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

You never know. Tech progresses faster than most of us notice.

True, but if that address can be figured out then any other one can too. And if that is the case, Bitcoin is screwed. If we ever get the technology to hack addresses, we will have to update the encryption used in Bitcoin.

I think it wouldn't matter. Bitcoin would crash down before that happens.

Nice.

Although it seems like if people are jsut sending coins there to "die" they should simply create their own wallet and burn their private keys themselves.

2 to 1 odds theres a person watching that stash accumulate for him for nothing and hes going to cash it out someday. Nice free bonus for being mr 111111111

And how would that person have the corresponding private key?

It seems that someone sent 40BTC to that address yesterday...

wow 40 BTC, it's amazing, someone very lucky, but not me  :'(

Is that the genesis block?

No, it's not. It's just another vanity address.


We don't know if someone have control of this address yet.

How can you know if someone generated them and is just hodling?

Maybe it is just a hidden message saying: "I cracked BTC and can find any private key I want, trololo"

Wouldn't they all have an equal chance of being guessed?

edit: provided you were using random passwords, instead of going through a wordlist or something

Since the associated public key is all zeros, then this wouldn't be a vanity address, right?

It can be vainty, but it is astronomical chance...
Most probably it is some "proof of burn" address.

I wonder if there's a leeding "one" in the hash that isn't seen? (Or a trail one at that?)

Someone accidentally sent 40BTC to that address ???

Is it possible to create an address by sending amounts to it?

originated from here : https://blockchain.info/address/12JJAm6uL5TD5jnMH9qBWXyyn7g4duCeGu

Seeing that there was 40BTC added to it, I would've cashed that bitch out now.

edit: 51,114.56855885BTC now

I checked on Preev and found it is worth XX,XXX now.

I gonna go after it if I can figure out what to do. I dont know what to do but I will try to get it. IDK how you found this address. Wish I kept a few OLD addresses I had YEARS ago.

...and thus the search for Eldorado began... Good Luck!

Was this generated via vanity address? Because if so this should of took many many years its takes me several hours just for a custom 4 letter address

No, there is no private key for this address. Read the OP, it is simply the address you get when you calculate what the Bitcoin address would be if the public key was all 0's. All of the funds sent to it are unspendable.

It is crazy that someone just burned 40btc sending to this address. Wonder if it was an accident or what their reasoning was.

how is possible to create one address like this ???

Somebody rich enough try to burn Bitcoin. That amount is unusable again from now on.

why the hell someone would send 40 btc to this address? :o

can we name our addreses ??? like this .

Yes, we can generate address that have few letters we like. Only few (5-6 tops).

how ??

using a vanity address generator

How this address has been made?

It is "simple".
You can generate valid address w/o knowing its private key.
OFC you cant spent coins you put in it.
It is used for "proof of burn" purposes.

I have been using XAPO , and their adresses dont show your transactions on blockchain? And  i was wondering how they are able to do tipping amounts less than miners fee?

It's just sad 43.26050876 BTC    is just lying there ... no one to use it...

I wish if the addresses were named upon the usernames of people :)

I wonder if this http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/20303/how-would-i-generate-a-valid-vanity-address-for-destroying-coins?lq=1 had anything to do with it?

You can name an address on blockchain.info by signing a message.

someone sent 40 btc to that address 4days ago. thats 40btc less in the supply,meaning mine are worth a little bit more.  ;D

I have seen many special address like this but still i don't know how these addresses are generated? care to explain me? i mean how can i get my own bitcoin address starting with my name :P

There is VanityGen for created a valid address that you have the private key to. Nobody probably has the key for this particular address though. You could create any bitcoin address and send funds to it. If you don't have the private key, you won't be able to spend them though.

What about 11111111111111111111BZbvjr

what's this address 1ByteCoinAddressesMatch1kpCxNXmHKW

can we get the desired btc address.?

Can you guys just read the past two pages, I don't want to create more redundancy.

Read but didn't find the answer

Just google Vanitygen - You can run it on your computer and try and get a vanity address of your choosing. Just don't pay anyone for this service, or you will likely get scammed as they will know the private key.

and dont use those free online vanity generators too

That's a.....long creepy address. I don't believe that still exists.

It is probably terminated...or will be terminated soon.

1111111111111111111114oLvT2 is the Blockstore burn address. 40 BTC was the fee to register a 2 letter namespace: "id".

https://github.com/blockstack/blockstore/wiki/FAQ

https://github.com/blockstack/blockstore/wiki/Usage