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Re: Collection of 18.509 found and used Brainwallets
by
almightyruler
on 20/06/2019, 12:00:36 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1)
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/b09a09458fe9bb86b0d897b4c244b05432bad28d

This one is interesting for a number of reasons...

- It seems to be a relatively early use of a SHA256 brainwallet (January 2012).

- The transaction originally funding this brainwallet split 1 BTC into neat sets of 0.001 and 0.005 BTC. Could other outputs from this transaction - there are 101 in total - also be brainwallets, or some other kind of special address? Some are still unspent, 7.5 years later.

- A second set of funds (6.08 BTC) was sent a couple of weeks later, then all funds were swept the following year. Over time, the value of 6.08 BTC appreciated from around $USD 35 in February 2012, to almost $USD 600 in July 2013. (The sweep output is still unspent; 6.08 BTC is now worth nearly $60,000. Hope the owner still has the privkey!)

The passphrase is just let the lovin take ahold