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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Bitcoin private key BASE58 problem
by
o_e_l_e_o
on 24/11/2021, 21:57:41 UTC
All others can and will.
No, all others cannot.

The block rewards from block 91,722 and 91,812 were overwritten by the block rewards from blocks 91,880 and 91,842 respectively, due to a bug which was fixed in BIP 30. Those 100 BTC are irretrievable.

There have been numerous block which have failed to claim the full block reward they were allowed to. These unclaimed coins are also irretrievable. Notable examples include block 501,726 which destroyed 12.5 BTC and block 526,591 which destroyed 6.25 BTC, but there are hundreds of other blocks totaling several dozen more permanently lost BTC.