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unamis76
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July 29, 2015, 10:03:05 PM |
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This is a known address, it's the default example from brainwallet. The person who sent it there either made a donation to the wrong address or made a big mistake, unfortunately.
Since it was probably a mistake, it should be returned, but we all know that doesn't happen (much often...). I guess we live and learn, unfortunately the amount of coins was significant.
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July 29, 2015, 10:05:30 PM |
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This is a known address, it's the default example from brainwallet. The person who sent it there either made a donation to the wrong address or made a big mistake, unfortunately.
Since it was probably a mistake, it should be returned, but we all know that doesn't happen (much often...). I guess we live and learn, unfortunately the amount of coins was significant.
It is also possible that the guy swiped the coins himself. But, as I can see, even after 80+ confirmation blockchain.info is showing the outgoing Tx as double spend. |
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jwcastle
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July 29, 2015, 10:06:58 PM |
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Looks like more than 1 person tried to claim that 50 BTC.
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gentlemand
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July 29, 2015, 10:07:44 PM |
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Since it was probably a mistake, it should be returned, but we all know that doesn't happen (much often...).
I was under the impression there are bots out there dedicated to scanning for obvious brain wallets. That's the most obvious one of all by the sounds of it. Goodnight, sweet coins. I don't really get why anyone indulges in them. |
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PolarPoint
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July 29, 2015, 10:33:26 PM |
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I was under the impression there are bots out there dedicated to scanning for obvious brain wallets. That's the most obvious one of all by the sounds of it. Goodnight, sweet coins.
There are bots which scans famous quotes, bible quotes, song lyrics, everything a person can think of plus small mutations. I feel sorry for anyone who lost coins this way. Any brainwallet generated from phrases just aren't safe, people have to learn their lesson the hard way. |
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unamis76
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July 29, 2015, 10:45:00 PM |
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This is a known address, it's the default example from brainwallet. The person who sent it there either made a donation to the wrong address or made a big mistake, unfortunately.
Since it was probably a mistake, it should be returned, but we all know that doesn't happen (much often...). I guess we live and learn, unfortunately the amount of coins was significant.
It is also possible that the guy swiped the coins himself. But, as I can see, even after 80+ confirmation blockchain.info is showing the outgoing Tx as double spend. Yes, that's a possibility too, but a very optimistic one 
Since it was probably a mistake, it should be returned, but we all know that doesn't happen (much often...).
I was under the impression there are bots out there dedicated to scanning for obvious brain wallets. That's the most obvious one of all by the sounds of it. Goodnight, sweet coins. I don't really get why anyone indulges in them. Yes, bots exist... People are after free and easy coins, I guess...  |
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July 29, 2015, 10:46:26 PM |
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I am envious.
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BTC:1AiCRMxgf1ptVQwx6hDuKMu4f7F27QmJC2
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July 29, 2015, 10:49:08 PM |
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I was under the impression there are bots out there dedicated to scanning for obvious brain wallets. That's the most obvious one of all by the sounds of it. Goodnight, sweet coins.
There are bots which scans famous quotes, bible quotes, song lyrics, everything a person can think of plus small mutations. I feel sorry for anyone who lost coins this way. Any brainwallet generated from phrases just aren't safe, people have to learn their lesson the hard way. Thats why I would never, ever store my main stack within something that can be generated out of thin air. There's no way im ever moving my coins from my local offline hardware unless I want to have spare BTC on my mycellium wallet. Brainwallet sounds good but better stay a paranoid and go good ol offline. |
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Nexious
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July 29, 2015, 10:51:15 PM |
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It was a well known brain wallet address, either it was a mistake or done on purpose. If it was a mistake I feel sorry for the person, but sending that large amounts you would double check everything before you sent.
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July 29, 2015, 11:53:28 PM |
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Pretty crazy stuff, whether it was a mistake or not. I know the feeling though, I have sent BTC to the wrong address before(never anything near that much though).
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Gleb Gamow
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July 30, 2015, 01:33:49 AM |
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It was a well known brain wallet address, either it was a mistake or done on purpose. If it was a mistake I feel sorry for the person, but sending that large amounts you would double check everything before you sent.
This might help. Looks like he might have been warning you? 1brain = GoodGuy bitcoin stealer lol. From: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7365663Perhaps this comment will start a good discussion, or maybe people won't like it because I'm one of the thieves mentioned. I'm the owner of the 1brain7kAZxPagLt2HRLxqyc3VgGSa1GR address. First, for those curious, the passphrases of the wallets taken from so far: 19JsLFDRxuTsAjapE79FgoVNdNdB2hNU5M - "alfanumerico" (0.36875 BTC) 1PQiixL1SyytXoUGFBGA5ptW9uTjsBrdhX - "emergency" (0.00085 BTC) 1CqRJYoztkWifUYadFg13MHdmECx6uEdy7 - "butterfly" (0.00025 BTC) 16ga2uqnF1NqpAuQeeg7sTCAdtDUwDyJav - "password" (0.00085 BTC) 1HZwkjkeaoZfTSaJxDw6aKkxp45agDiEzN - "" (0.474972 BTC) 1HoSFymoqteYrmmr7s3jDDqmggoxacbk37 - "hello" (0.000555 BTC) 1C7zdTfnkzmr13HfA2vNm5SJYRK6nEKyq8 - "correct horse battery staple" (0.243762 BTC) 1JwSSubhmg6iPtRjtyqhUYYH7bZg3Lfy1T - "correct horse battery staple" (0.000079 BTC) The implementation isn't particularly exciting. I have a PostgreSQL database containing a single `address' table storing (address, privKey, passphrase). Of course, the passphrase doesn't actually need to be stored, but I kept it around to satisfy my own curiosity. I run a modified bitcoind client that checks each transaction it hears about (in CTxMemPool::accept) to see if any of the outputs are in my database. If they are, a transaction is created, signed and broadcast to send the same number of BTC (minus fees) to 1brain7kAZxPagLt2HRLxqyc3VgGSa1GR. I just wanted to point out that, when I started this, it was not for financial gain. I simply saw it as a fun and interesting exercise about the Bitcoin protocol. I wanted to see if I was capable to "winning the race" -- trust me when I say there are loads of people out there "mining" brainwallets, and whosever transaction is included in a block first tends to win and get the Bitcoin. I never expected to gain over 1 BTC, I think I got rather lucky. My database contains 19,412,020 passphrases (mostly single passwords, actually) which all came from various wordlists I found online. I consider this to be a fairly small dictionary, based on what I've read about other people doing the same thing. I originally had plans to make the database much bigger, however I've since moved onto other projects. I'm happy to answer questions if people have any. There's a signed version of this comment at http://pastebin.com/s29kk2bb, which you can verify (rather ironically) at http://brainwallet.org/#verify. |
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jonald_fyookball
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July 30, 2015, 01:50:57 AM |
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why are there two addresses for correct horse battery staple?
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July 30, 2015, 03:01:29 AM |
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why are there two addresses for correct horse battery staple?
brainwallet has two modes for creating private keys called "Point Conversion" which makes compressed and uncompressed private keys, hence two different addresses. |
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July 30, 2015, 05:06:52 AM |
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Kprawn
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July 30, 2015, 06:15:01 AM |
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Well it's been flagged --> " Warning! this bitcoin address contains transactions which may be double spends. You should be extremely careful when trusting any transactions to or from this address. "
I see test transactions being performed, so it's going to go down the rabbit whole very soon, if it's stolen coins. How can people make a mistake like that with 50 BTC?
I hope for their sake that is not a mistake... Thats a lot of money in anyone's language. It's amazing how fast these bots are to catch up on that... or was it just a test?
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July 30, 2015, 08:30:56 AM |
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July 30, 2015, 08:42:47 AM |
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Well it's been flagged --> " Warning! this bitcoin address contains transactions which may be double spends. You should be extremely careful when trusting any transactions to or from this address. "
I see test transactions being performed, so it's going to go down the rabbit whole very soon, if it's stolen coins. How can people make a mistake like that with 50 BTC?
I hope for their sake that is not a mistake... Thats a lot of money in anyone's language. It's amazing how fast these bots are to catch up on that... or was it just a test?
When you are not careful enough shit happens really fast. 50 BTC is a lot, but I have witnessed people being less or same careful with amounts of 500 BTCs and higher. Didn't some user of this forum guard his passwords and wallet.dat files unencrypted on the cloud and he got hacked for more than 1000 BTCs. Luckily he managed to negotiate the return of funds with the thief. I guess that some people never learn. |
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RocketSingh
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July 30, 2015, 09:10:59 AM |
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Well it's been flagged --> " Warning! this bitcoin address contains transactions which may be double spends. You should be extremely careful when trusting any transactions to or from this address. "
I see test transactions being performed, so it's going to go down the rabbit whole very soon, if it's stolen coins. How can people make a mistake like that with 50 BTC?
I hope for their sake that is not a mistake... Thats a lot of money in anyone's language. It's amazing how fast these bots are to catch up on that... or was it just a test?
When you are not careful enough shit happens really fast. 50 BTC is a lot, but I have witnessed people being less or same careful with amounts of 500 BTCs and higher. Didn't some user of this forum guard his passwords and wallet.dat files unencrypted on the cloud and he got hacked for more than 1000 BTCs. Luckily he managed to negotiate the return of funds with the thief. I guess that some people never learn. Yah. Here is the thread => https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=686275.0 |
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