Someone just sent 26 BTC to genesis block address

[blckhawk]

I remember earlier times of the forum when some Bitcoin haters do that. They thought they can kill Bitcoin by burning coins.
Burning Bitcoin wasn't very costly back then, given the prices of the time. However, it's not wise to make this move now. It's very likely that it was an erroneous transaction.

I love that there's a lot of haters like that, they burn bitcoin just to get their point across is something that I aspire to do in the future even though I'm not a bitcoin hater. But to be serious though, I don't think that it's a bitcoin hater though I mean that amount is just too big to be coming from a bitcoin hater that wants to send their message across, maybe that's the point because we wouldn't care too much if it's not a huge and considerable amount but still, kind of weird that it's a hater. For me though, I just like to think that this person is someone who's rich enough to sacrifice a little bitcoin stash that they've got to make bitcoin more rare.

[Sarah Azhari]

It's always a good idea to check the address correctly, or send a small amount beforehand to make sure everything goes well.

Bitcoin has something called a testnet to try something, I don't why dissipation and waste the money even they can use that.

I think it is supposed to be a demonstration of ownership. The sender wants us to believe he has the private key to this address.

There's no have purpose If only 99 BTC. If that supposed to be ownership, who is proud to be satoshi? I think, he's crazy if want to be satoshi.

Unless he moves the coins to another address, I don't believe him.

You don't have to believe nobody because it's the genesis block address and only satoshi is the one who's known to have access on it but we don't even know where he is or might be dead and unlikely to come back.

When I look at Explorer, that address never sent any btc yet (only received), is it possible Satoshi forgot the private key?

[franky1]

Wouldn't it be funny if Ayre paid Satoshi's address as part of an effort to force Wright to use it?

I genuinely hope this turns out to be true.  It would likely signify the end of their cooperation and a tremendously weakened and fiscally-hobbled Faketoshi going forward.  Because clearly there is absolutely no way in hell he's accessing the BTC in that address.

Fingers crossed.  Although, given that several block explorers seem to suggest the funds are from an exchange, odds seem slim.  Ayre using a SegWit address seems comical to me, somehow.  

if i was to go with the idiot belief that ayres isnt in on the CSW scam and genuinely feels that CSW could be satoshi.. then i can envision a conversation of:

CSW "buddy i need $1m, you always been good to me, gimme money"
ayres "ok i sent it to satoshis address, you can claim it there and also prove everyone wrong"
CSW "but um, um. [insert excuse]"

however i feel ayres is in on the CSW scam and has not been interested in a cut of the stash and has only been doing collateral ROI deals about court fines, book/movie deals, company acquisition deals as he knows he wont see CSW move the stash.. because he knows privately CSW isnt satoshi


so with that said i feel its more about binance and their totally different deal (with ordinals) where its ordinals (totally different scam) scammers pushing their scam earned coins into satoshi address unrelated to the CSW saga

[tabas]

Unless he moves the coins to another address, I don't believe him.

You don't have to believe nobody because it's the genesis block address and only satoshi is the one who's known to have access on it but we don't even know where he is or might be dead and unlikely to come back.

When I look at Explorer, that address never sent any btc yet (only received), is it possible Satoshi forgot the private key?

Most likely and that's what everyone is believing. So satoshi played it really well and proven one attribute of bitcoin for being anonymous whilst him, pseudonymous. That address is unlikely going to send any Bitcoin for what the most of us think that it's totally lost forever.
It even came from him with the quote at the first post about lost Bitcoins forever and it's probably that he did it on a purpose. So, if there are more people sending BTC on that address, it's like the burn address that satoshi has assigned but there are other addresses that have served the same purpose.

[Jet Cash]

Maybe Satoshi's heirs have control of that address, and it is a savings account for use after the great reset of world finances. It's a great way to attract donations. The most interesting post will come when some of those coins are spent. I'm starting to believe that that will happen in a fed years.

Alternatively, maybe somebody found Satoshi's hard drive dumped in a recycling centre.

[electronicash]

a hacker dusting the old address. it's what they say 26BTC is just dust to those rich guys.   felt sorry for the hacker.

but it's probably more like an error but it's hard to theorize what caused him to copy that old BTC address, could it be in his contacts? this is the beauty of blockchain everything can be seen and sending 26BTC can already sound an alarm.

the destination address is like accumulating by the way. https://mempool.space/address/1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa

[Cookdata]

https://mempool.space/tx/d7db4f96a4059c8906b953677ce533493d7b9da0f854a21b99f5772910dd0a31



So... People are still burning BTC, that's nice
Or was it a $1 150 455 mistake?

“Lost coins only make everyone else’s coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone.”

Since I have been into crypto, I have only seen this madness only with altcoins trying to reduce the supply of tokens to a burn address and because burn addresses are wallet address without private keys, it is impossible to spend the coins in the wallet but now that I'm seeing this on bitcoin, I'm really confused why anyone will choose to do this madness with such bitcoin. Not even a drug cartel will use his bad money to buy bitcoin only to waste it on a place where he wouldn't have access to it or was it trying to cover tracks?  There is more to do this madness to be honest.

This can't be a mistake a mistake because if this was a Trojan or keyboard hijack, when he pasted the wallet address, if th hacker wanted to have the bitcoin, he would have change the wallet to his own address but instead to a dead wallet which was even obvious from the prefix, the bitcoin was sent from bc1 to 1 prefix, this is not cool but it's what is, the owner would understand better.

[Agbe]

I saw the news from Google New feedback and clicked on it and read it and I was like wow!! I was also thinking the say direction with the Op, I was thinking that was it a mistake or the person deliberately send to support the work of Satoshi? And if is yes then it is a very good donation to the Bitcoin family to make the coin more stronger.   And if it is a mistake then Satoshi will trace the sender address and know if I was a mistake or not. But I don't think it is a mistake because hackers would not do such a big mistake and individual would not do as well.

[Becassine]

Hello,

If someone wants to make a mistake in my wallet, here is the adress : bc1q93t3pkrnmmxg3q5ay075znu4y3xdtvwx0s0rkt

You can make it voluntary too if you want.

Thank you and happy new year 

[paid2]

If someone wants to make a mistake in my wallet, here is the adress : bc1q93t3pkrnmmxg3q5ay075znu4y3xdtvwx0s0rkt

You can make it voluntary too if you want.

Not 26 BTC but just sent you 0,26 usd   as a friendly ridiculous tip

9d5ccda37d72617f5d88d38d30e5e743f663f69a1d24bcd77e8e806bb878c984

[Becassine]

If someone wants to make a mistake in my wallet, here is the adress : bc1q93t3pkrnmmxg3q5ay075znu4y3xdtvwx0s0rkt

You can make it voluntary too if you want.

Not 26 BTC but just sent you 0,26 usd   as a friendly ridiculous tip

9d5ccda37d72617f5d88d38d30e5e743f663f69a1d24bcd77e8e806bb878c984

From small streams large rivers are born 

Thank you

[dansus021]

whoever person sends that is totally insane or that person is super duper crazy or super-duper rich that throws millions into inactive addresses, maybe he is wrong when trying to send some bitcoin to his wallet and instead send to another wallet

i have a message tho to the sender and here is the message
please if you can send 26 BTC to an unknown address please send me a slice  

[room237a11]

tHE dIGits 26.91679286 iS a msg fROm a tiMe trAVELer to SatoSHI

[ObscurePen]

Wait I'm not sure if I am reading this right. The 26 BTC donation in itself is a bit shocking, but a 1.2 mil transfer for 20 bucks and he paid 4x the tx fee!! That's bloody good. How did he get such a low transaction fee?

[Jawhead999]

Wait I'm not sure if I am reading this right. The 26 BTC donation in itself is a bit shocking, but a 1.2 mil transfer for 20 bucks and he paid 4x the tx fee!! That's bloody good. How did he get such a low transaction fee?

Bitcoin fee is base on the weight, not from the amount you want to send, it's different to Paypal or any other fiat payment processor.

Well it was 12 bucks and the reason why they overpaid 4 times high likely due to bad estimation by the wallet.

tHE dIGits 26.91679286 iS a msg fROm a tiMe trAVELer to SatoSHI

Correct, the msg of this post is msg63471245, there are only 2628208041 to go.

[hilariousetc]

Unless he moves the coins to another address, I don't believe him.

You don't have to believe nobody because it's the genesis block address and only satoshi is the one who's known to have access on it but we don't even know where he is or might be dead and unlikely to come back.

When I look at Explorer, that address never sent any btc yet (only received), is it possible Satoshi forgot the private key?

They can't be sent. The coins might as well have just been tossed into a digital black hole. This transaction having anything to do with Craig doesn't make any sense at all. If Craig had any control over the genesis block or any of the very first addresses he would have just signed a message by now, but he can't for obvious reasons. It's like someone throwing money down a sinkhole that they don't own to try claim ownership. I have no idea why this happened but I can't see any way how this benefits Craig.

Wouldn't it be funny if Ayre paid Satoshi's address as part of an effort to force Wright to use it?

I genuinely hope this turns out to be true.  It would likely signify the end of their cooperation and a tremendously weakened and fiscally-hobbled Faketoshi going forward.  Because clearly there is absolutely no way in hell he's accessing the BTC in that address.

Fingers crossed.  Although, given that several block explorers seem to suggest the funds are from an exchange, odds seem slim.  Ayre using a SegWit address seems comical to me, somehow.  

if i was to go with the idiot belief that ayres isnt in on the CSW scam and genuinely feels that CSW could be satoshi.. then i can envision a conversation of:

CSW "buddy i need $1m, you always been good to me, gimme money"
ayres "ok i sent it to satoshis address, you can claim it there and also prove everyone wrong"
CSW "but um, um. [insert excuse]"

however i feel ayres is in on the CSW scam and has not been interested in a cut of the stash and has only been doing collateral ROI deals about court fines, book/movie deals, company acquisition deals as he knows he wont see CSW move the stash.. because he knows privately CSW isnt satoshi


so with that said i feel its more about binance and their totally different deal (with ordinals) where its ordinals (totally different scam) scammers pushing their scam earned coins into satoshi address unrelated to the CSW saga

Doesn't matter what Calvin thinks just as long as there's a chance Craig can somehow get a hold of Satoshi's stash or bitcoin's IP someway. He probably knows by now that Craig isn't Satoshi but is still hoping he can con a court into 'officially' crowning him as Satoshi, which is unlikely but not impossible.