Way ahead of ya man. This train is over, the tour de France is on and whilst everyone is distracted someone's pulled a fast one........

Interested!!! put it in my Sig!

National service bill is no where near becoming a law, its only been heard once in the house of commons. still has a long way to go. I doubt whether many will be up for this really......
http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/nationalservice.html

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I noticed that it is possible to generate a wallet which is encrypted with BIP0038 without giving a password. How does this work?

Does the algorithm have a default password it uses to generate the new key? or is a random password generated?

If an address is created in this manner, i.e password-less, you cannot access it from bitaddress.org as an error is given that reads "Passphrase required for BIP38 key" so a password must be assigned to it somehow.

I wouldn't know where to start to look at the code to find this out for myself.