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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Rare address hall of fame
by
shorena
on 13/01/2016, 07:01:12 UTC
In case anyone is interested in creating some proof-of-burn addresses like 1TestxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxzoXNkw:

https://gobittest.appspot.com/ProofOfBurn

The last five numerals/letters come up the same if I change the single letter/numeral and come back to the first. 1ForTheMoney444444444444443yCnh1H

What's the purpose of these? (Yes, I can see it says burn - really? Just throw away BTC ?)

*edit* Last between five and seven numbers/letters

The last few symbols are the checksum. It can be used to check if there is a typo in the address.