Quote from: almightyruler on Today at 01:43:06 PM

Quote from: Cricktor on Today at 09:56:08 AM

Seriously, how stupid is someone to use SHA256("")

More likely to be a programming error. I recall suggesting a few years ago in this thread that something like (pseudoish code) assert(key != 0xe3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855) would have avoided this particular issue.

Maybe a few of them might have been some programming errors, but I doubt that for the majority of funding transactions for this private key. Many are probing or dusting, but why should there be such a lot of wacky programming?
About the half of the total transactions are funding, the other half is stealing the coins as of now, today. Ridiculous game...

Public address	Number of Tx	Private key type
1HZwkjkeaoZfTSaJxDw6aKkxp45agDiEzN	717	uncompressed
1F3sAm6ZtwLAUnj7d38pGFxtP3RVEvtsbV	129	compressed
3DnW8JGpPViEZdpqat8qky1zc26EKbXnmM	14	compressed
bc1qngw83fg8dz0k749cg7k3emc7v98wy0c74dlrkd	6	compressed

Quote from: BitcoinADAB on Today at 06:13:43 PM

Maybe also valid for Satoshi's mined blocks?

Who knows, Satoshi was smarter than many. I doubt he used some deterministic way to compute his used private keys. But I can only guess wildly...