Quote from: rico666 on October 11, 2016, 07:39:31 PM

Quote from: rico666 on October 11, 2016, 08:07:22 AM

When the confirmations are through, I may or may not (should I? What are the pros/cons?) publish the PK

~~The~~ A PK for the hash160 "f6cc30532dba44efe592733887f4f74c589c9602"

is

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000022306e3f1a72

Rico

It is far more plausible that this was a "challenge" someone made, to see how long it would take to be solved - I have found many such transactions. I doubt that a weak PRNG is the cause of this key, but it being a collision with a properly generated key is so unlikely that we can safely assume that is not what happened. Even if it were, it's not really any cause for concern. Managing to crack a single key via collision by absurd luck is not going to be repeatable.

A few keys I've found:

Code:

0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001432e319d1 1AXNh9qGze8s9NchczX6mUDmGdSusqTkRC
fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffebaaedce6af48a03bbfd25e8cd035a4fe 1CFpL8KdmCe5AXYAxhhaaangzgVbHb17wQ
000000000000000000000000000000014551231950b75fc4402da1732fc9bea4 17Q8iVzus5k2Jig4enmjU4txjxR1fJHsux
1100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002002 1AbswvNoC4kSJVquaqqPBcvMvevw9ecjPB