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Re: List of all Bitcoin addresses ever used
by
LoyceV
on 18/08/2020, 09:43:57 UTC
Can you also scrape all the Bitcoin Address used here in forum and the user that uses it?
I actually can Cheesy I found this regexp on Stackoverflow:
Code:
egrep --regexp="^[13][a-km-zA-HJ-NP-Z1-9]{25,34}$" filename
With some slight changes it stops matching parts of Eth-addresses:
Code:
egrep -w --regexp="[13][a-km-zA-HJ-NP-Z1-9]{25,34}" *

I could run this code on 53 million archived posts, but the main problem will be excluding quotes. That's annoying and slow to do, and if I don't exclude them, it will completely mess up the data. On the other hand, quotes may still contain information that was deleted by the user who posted it.
Even without quotes, users still post Bitcoin addresses that aren't theirs, for instance when providing evidence on a scammer.

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I think it would help labeling the users and alt accounts throughout the entire forum, and would make it easier to detect which accounts are linked to each other
A smart user would simply use different addresses. An even smarter user would use different wallets, so they don't create a blockchain trail when they make a payment.

As a quick test, 51 out of 9999 posts contain at least one Bitcoin address (starting with 1 or 3, ignoring Bech32).

For now I won't go continue this search. If I ever do, I'll move this discussion to Reputation]/url].