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 |
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...