Quote from: Royse777 on August 05, 2019, 06:50:35 PM

Someone in the Digital goods section is buying private keys of empty Bitcoin address which had balance of over 40 BTC or more. And the requirement to have the first transaction in between 2009-2018. Please check here: Archive

They are paying very handsome amount too.

Quote from: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5172124.0

The recovery price is calculated at 0.25% of the total Bitcoin received.

I asked them the question that what is the business there but seems like they are comfortable to keep it confidential which is completely okay.

This was a response from one user:

Quote from: NeuroticFish on August 04, 2019, 07:22:15 PM

Some tend to believe that they can trick others (maybe authorities?) with claims they had Bitcoins in the past but they don't have anymore. I have some hunches, but nothing clear (and I don't want to give better ideas to others too). However, very shady things.

(Also there are the forks, you know..)

And seems like we both have no clue however I am interested to know the possible usability one could have by spending that much money for some private keys which for me (possibly for you too) have no value at all. Can we figure out a possible project from this case?

Cheers,

Maybe they use them for airdrops? As far as I remember some airdrops were requiring to own a lot of bitcoins and sign a message from them.
But on another hand, as NeuroticFish says they want to trick others that they were owning bitcoins in past, I think this won't be the reason behind this because if you check any adress on btc.com it shows you if it was mentioned on bitcointalk and in which threads, so I think that ruins that idea.
So I think they don't depend on tricks because they pay really huge amount to risk for tricks.