Bitcoin Forum
May 03, 2024, 11:33:59 PM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.0 [Torrent]
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register More  
Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: The very first BTC private key leads to both 1337 and 42! (Nerdery)  (Read 165 times)
BTCW (OP)
Copper Member
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Activity: 193
Merit: 235

Click "+Merit" top-right corner


View Profile
May 23, 2020, 04:52:41 PM
Merited by vapourminer (2)
 #1

A nerdy observation - coincidence or not?

The smallest possible private key can be expressed with this 64 character hexadecimal string (32 bytes)

Code:
0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001

This is directly translatable the uncompressed pair

Code:
Private key: 5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreAnchuDf
Public address: 1EHNa6Q4Jz2uvNExL497mE43ikXhwF6kZm
Reference: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1EHNa6Q4Jz2uvNExL497mE43ikXhwF6kZm

and to the compressed pair

Code:
Private key: KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU73sVHnoWn
Public address: 1BgGZ9tcN4rm9KBzDn7KprQz87SZ26SAMH
Reference: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1BgGZ9tcN4rm9KBzDn7KprQz87SZ26SAMH

At the time of writing (today's date), the uncompressed address has been used in 1337 transactions, and the compressed address has been used in 42 transactions.

How cool is that?! And how long will it take until some smartass use these again and ruin these beautiful numbers? Smiley
1714779239
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1714779239

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1714779239
Reply with quote  #2

1714779239
Report to moderator
1714779239
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1714779239

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1714779239
Reply with quote  #2

1714779239
Report to moderator
1714779239
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1714779239

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1714779239
Reply with quote  #2

1714779239
Report to moderator
"In a nutshell, the network works like a distributed timestamp server, stamping the first transaction to spend a coin. It takes advantage of the nature of information being easy to spread but hard to stifle." -- Satoshi
Advertised sites are not endorsed by the Bitcoin Forum. They may be unsafe, untrustworthy, or illegal in your jurisdiction.
1714779239
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1714779239

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1714779239
Reply with quote  #2

1714779239
Report to moderator
1714779239
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1714779239

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1714779239
Reply with quote  #2

1714779239
Report to moderator
20kevin20
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 1134
Merit: 1597


View Profile
May 25, 2020, 05:36:37 PM
 #2

So someone really took their time to do this thing, I am really wondering how the hell you guys discover these things all the time. It would've never crossed my mind to look this up.

Oh well, you've just given the private keys to both of them so it's really just a matter of copy-pasting them into a wallet & sending a satoshi and there goes your finding. Cheesy
Pages: [1]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!