The very first BTC private key leads to both 1337 and 42! (Nerdery)

[BTCW]

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?

[20kevin20]

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.