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Re: 50 BTC lost because of blank passphrase
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cointell
on 30/07/2015, 05:45:39 UTC
why are there two addresses for correct horse battery staple?

brainwallet has two modes for creating private keys called "Point Conversion" which makes compressed and uncompressed private keys, hence two different addresses.

Yep, and the two addresses for the empty string are:

https://blockchain.info/address/1HZwkjkeaoZfTSaJxDw6aKkxp45agDiEzN
https://blockchain.info/address/1F3sAm6ZtwLAUnj7d38pGFxtP3RVEvtsbV