Quote from: Havoc on June 23, 2011, 04:13:50 PM

It already got 0.021 BTC.

How do you go about designing an adress like that? I guess you need a few characters at the end to make it pass the verification, but is there a tool to determine them?

I think it's something like the first character specify the address type (I gather testnet addresses have a different first digit than live Bitcoin addresses), then whatever you want and the last few characters are a checksum to protect against typo in the address. If you understood the checksum process, it's probably trivial to come up with an address that passes muster in the client, but no one has the private key for.

Quote from: westkybitcoins on June 23, 2011, 04:20:56 PM

Um.... wow.

Yeah, I would think such an obviously-manufactured address wouldn't have been created from a ~~private~~ public key.

And the address has already had bitcoins sent to it? Undecided

Are those your transactions, or did you just happen to notice the address in the blockchain?

No, I just saw the address mentioned elsewhere. I'm pretty sure the people sending coins to it are the people who don't particularly give a fuck about Bitcoins, and thought that to the "true believers", seeing some publicly destroyed would make them rage. I guess they don't understand that it has the opposite effect, lost Bitcoins are effectively donated to everyone.