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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: What about those bitcoins that are LOST?
by
jacktheking
on 25/07/2015, 11:02:30 UTC
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!

Yes. It's possible for people to find a private key that is associate with the Bitcoin address (1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE).

Let me try to brute-force the private key using Vanitygen on my ~350 Kkey/s computer..

http://imgs.us/image/sj

Alright. More than ... Human lifetime to get it.