What happens if you send funds to a customized address?

[BlackHatCoiner]

I don't try it, because I may lose some satoshis for no reason.

If you browse this: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/satoshi

You can see that it reads whatever address you submit. Of course, address named "satoshi" doesn't exist because no private key produces it. So, do wallets allow me to send funds to that address?

[1714753024]

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[1714753024]

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[ranochigo]

Nothing will happen.

On a client level, the client should have a check which rejects any addresses that are of an unknown format. If it does filter through, in the case of a typo, the checksum will not checkout and it won't be a valid address.

If you do send to an invalid address, the nodes that receive the transaction will not consider it as valid. As a result, your transaction is not propagated and nothing happens. There is no real danger of accidentally sending to the wrong address through typo either.

[akhjob]

On a client level, the client should have a check which rejects any addresses that are of an unknown format. If it does filter through, in the case of a typo, the checksum will not checkout and it won't be a valid address.

While we can't send anything to a customised address like "satoshi" or "bitcoin" because they are of unknown format, what about customised addresses like "1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE"? We can send funds to the said address, right?

[BlackHatCoiner]

Yes, because there may be a private key that produces it.

[ranochigo]

While we can't send anything to a customised address like "satoshi" or "bitcoin" because they are of unknown format, what about customised addresses like "1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE"? We can send funds to the said address, right?

Yes you can. They are valid addresses.

Those kinds of addresses are specially designed to burn the coins. This means that while they are valid[1], there is a very low chance that someone would have access to those coins. It is obvious that the address is used to burn coins. Typing those addresses out accidentally and not realising that something is amiss is impossible.

Yes, because there may be a private key that produces it.

There is. The address is perfectly valid because the checksum checks out.


[1] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1851/how-to-generate-a-valid-bitcoin-address-for-destroying-bitcoins

[bitmover]

While we can't send anything to a customised address like "satoshi" or "bitcoin" because they are of unknown format, what about customised addresses like "1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE"? We can send funds to the said address, right?

Yes you can. They are valid addresses.

Those kinds of addresses are specially designed to burn the coins. This means that while they are valid[1], there is a very low chance that someone would have access to those coins. It is obvious that the address is used to burn coins. Typing those addresses out accidentally and not realising that something is amiss is impossible.

Just to add some more information to the discussion, I want to share this table which shows the average time to find a customized address like this one:


https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen


It would take 3.3 decilllion years. What the hell is a decillion? lol I checked wikipedia, it is a 10³³ years lol

[PrimeNumber7]

It appears that blockchair will accept any string, and will search their database of addresses with the string you provide. It does not appear that blockchair will actually confirm the string you are providing is actually a valid address.

If you do send to an invalid address, the nodes that receive the transaction will not consider it as valid. As a result, your transaction is not propagated and nothing happens.

More importantly, any miner that includes a transaction that sends coin to an invalid address in their block will have the block be rejected by the rest of the network.

[pooya87]

More importantly, any miner that includes a transaction that sends coin to an invalid address in their block will have the block be rejected by the rest of the network.

this is not true.
bitcoin does not validate outputs in transactions so they can contain any kind of script or even invalid set of bytes and the transaction and the block containing it is still a perfectly valid one. you can already find many invalid (unspendable) UTXOs that were mined just fine.

P.S. BTW your wording is bad, we don't send coins to an address. we send coins to an output script. and that script can be invalid.

[BlackHatCoiner]

Do we know any burning addresses that have funds right now? They should be written in the blockchain. I wonder of on LoyceV's csv file exist.

[ranochigo]

Do we know any burning addresses that have funds right now? They should be written in the blockchain. I wonder of on LoyceV's csv file exist.

1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr
1111111111111111111114oLvT2
1ChancecoinXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXZELUFD

It's not immediately obvious if an address is a burn address but I imagine you can train a script which can identify them to a reasonable accuracy. Burn addresses are not the best way to burn coins as they can introduce UTXO bloat. It's better to use OP_Return.

[LoyceV]

Only 1 week for 1Bitcoin*? Interesting.

Actually, it can be generated much faster, bitmover's list must be outdated. My old laptop gives 20 hours for 50% chance of finding such an address, and I've read about vanity generating speeds up to 100 times faster than this. So with modern hardware, you should be able to get several per hour. And if you just want "something nice", you can search for thousands of different word phrases at once.

Do we know any burning addresses that have funds right now? They should be written in the blockchain. I wonder of on LoyceV's csv file exist.

Feel free to check it: List of all Bitcoin addresses with a balance.
If I search for a bunch of xxxxxxxxxx, I find 219 matches:

Code:

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1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr is the dumbest: they burned 2130 BTC to create a shitcoin that's now worth only 2.4 million dollars.

It's not immediately obvious if an address is a burn address

Any address can burn coins (just delete your private keys and it's burned!), but what makes burn addresses special is that it's obviously not randomly generated. I've used an address starting with 166666666 in the past, which wasn't a burn address. But if it would be 20 more sixes, it becomes very unlikely to own it's private key.
For fun: Create your own Bitcoin burn address.

[BlackHatCoiner]

And we should not forget that a private key is a fixed length string. If you choose an address without knowing its private key it is very likely that there is no 64-length private key that produces it, right? Theoretically.

Example:

Address 1: 1L1Z1V8WCQi5DEuQeF3GLR9LPWEUF2swtU

Private key 1: c89856dd1b8f867fedfbefaa95c340a086aaaf1b086ffa3772b37540b45912f9



Address 2: 1L1Z1V8WCQi5DEuQeF3GLR9LPWEUF2swtu

Private key 2:  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

We can't know if there is a 64-length private key that produces 1L1Z1V8WCQi5DEuQeF3GLR9LPWEUF2swtu

[LoyceV]

And we should not forget that a private key is a fixed length string. If you choose an address without knowing its private key it is very likely that there is no 64-length private key that produces it, right? Theoretically.

That's very unlikely: there are 2²⁵⁶ public keys, but only 2¹⁶⁰ version-0 addresses, so each address actually represents on average 2⁹⁶ different public keys.

Address 2: 1L1Z1V8WCQi5DEuQeF3GLR9LPWEUF2swtu

This is not a valid address. The last characters are a checksum.

[ranochigo]

It's not immediately obvious if an address is a burn address

Any address can burn coins (just delete your private keys and it's burned!), but what makes burn addresses special is that it's obviously not randomly generated. I've used an address starting with 166666666 in the past, which wasn't a burn address. But if it would be 20 more sixes, it becomes very unlikely to own it's private key.
For fun: Create your own Bitcoin burn address.

Yep but I wasn't sure if its easy to create a something to identify a particular pattern within the address that makes it likely to be a burn address. I have doubts about its reliability; addresses with a lot of the same continuous characters would definitely be a burn address but I've seen burn addresses which are a lot more unique (not vanity).

[RXUser]

1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr is the dumbest: they burned 2130 BTC to create a shitcoin that's now worth only 2.4 million dollars.

Do you have any idea why this address and some other old addresses keep receiving coins from a specifics address periodically ?

[BlackHatCoiner]

OMG, I just saw the 1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr!

What exactly happened there? Do we have any threads? It seems burnt address. (meaning, no private key that produces it)

[ranochigo]

OMG, I just saw the 1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr!

What exactly happened there? Do we have any threads? It seems burnt address. (meaning, no private key that produces it)

Proof of burn. A new crypto was created through the use of burning Bitcoins to earn the alt coin. See LoyceV's post and Google it please., its pretty easy to find the info.

https://counterparty.io/why-proof-of-burn/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=395761.0