Quote from: zebedee on July 25, 2015, 10:52:54 AM

Quote from: Herbert2020 on July 15, 2015, 02:35:41 PM

i don't know if this is what he meant or even this was in his mind when he posted the top comment but there is an address that only eats bitcoins and in fact destroys them:
https://blockchain.info/address/1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE

this address is without private keys so if you send to that address the coins will be lost forever!

Not true at all. That address is almost certain, like any address, to have quadrillions upon quadrillions of private keys that can spend from it.

Your problem is to find just one. Go!

how can a bitcoin address have many private keys :O
every bitcoin address has just one private key!!!

Quote from: zebedee on July 25, 2015, 10:54:44 AM

Quote from: Herbert2020 on July 16, 2015, 07:52:45 AM

Quote from: ausbit on July 15, 2015, 03:14:29 PM

Exactly the address i was thinking about, thank you Herbert2020

Now when you say this address has no private keys what do you mean.
Was this address created without private keys? (If even possible)
Or were the private keys just destroyed to this address, if so who did and or approved this?

creating an address with that many custom characters (BitcoinEaterAddressDontSend) is impossible.

So I'm imagining the existence of that address? Please don't pontificate on things you don't understand.

you either didn't even read what i wrote higher or don't have any understanding of how bitcoin addresses and private keys are related and how you an create a custom address.

here are some good references to read:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen