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Re: Scammer Matthew N Wright wants to sue Theymos lulz!!!
by
sgravina
on 04/02/2014, 23:25:40 UTC
I'm impressed by that long vanity address 1MatthewNWrightisaScammer124DNsfX haha, wow. How long did that take to generate?

That address is a string with a checksum that makes it possible for the standard bitcoin client to send bitcoins to it.  Like this one: 1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE  

Nobody generated a private key for that address.  Those coins in that address can never be spent.  Generating the private/public key pair takes time.  Generating a public key with a good checksum is easy.

Any coins sent there will be lost forever.

Here is another one: 1111111111111111111114oLvT2