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June 20, 2017, 10:14:01 AM |
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no they are not fake, they found private keys that has been placed there to be found. private keys are just numbers. starting from 1 to a huge number[1]. as a puzzle someone placed some funds on some of these private keys starting from 1 up, randomly selected a number in that range.
example: if the PK is between 1-10 it is easy to find if the PK is between 10-100 ... the PK is between 100-1000 the PK is between 1000-2000 the PK is between 1000000000-... it is harder to find so on... until it becomes impossible to find if the private key was generate truly random and using a proper bitcoin wallet client (such as core, electrum, multibit, bitaddress, etc)
if i recall correctly these ranges were of power of 2 meaning 1-2, 2-4, 4-16 and so on.
also later we found out that whoever ran this code on their computer opened up a backdoor for anyone to run any kind of script/code on their computer and infect them.
[1] i forgot what that biggest number is but according to wiki it is this hex: 0xFFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFE BAAE DCE6 AF48 A03B BFD2 5E8C D036 4140
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