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Re: How/Who first found burning address?
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Saint-loup
on 04/12/2022, 12:04:29 UTC
Does those address could be spendable if "GOD" earn private-key.  Or those bitcoins has scripted like un-spendable?
There is no script preventing these outputs from being spent since they are normal P2PKH scripts. What prevents them from being spent is that because of the way these addresses are created. The user creates the hash which can not be reversed to get the public key which also can not be reversed to get the private key that is needed to spend the coins.

But don't forget there's rare case such as address 1111111111111111111114oLvT2 which has unreachable spending condition due to RIPEMD-160.

If you send any coins to the public key used in Genesis blocks, the coins may never move but they are not lost because Satoshi created that key and may have the private key still stored somewhere so that he can spend those coins in the future if he chooses to.

The genesis block coins can never be spent:

coingeek[dot]com/the-mystery-of-the-genesis-block


Personally i would not use this website as reference or information source since it contains BSV propaganda.
This address "has unreachable spending condition due to RIPEMD-160" ? Could you elaborate please because I read this topic about this address and I didn't find a post telling that.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5418492
_Counselor said "no one knows its key, and it may well be that such a key does not exist at all" but he's not affirmative.

This address - 1111111111111111111114oLvT2, created from RIPE160 hash with all zero bits "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
Because there is no known attacks on ripe160, it is nearly impossible that someone found such input, that will produce that hash, even if you do not take into account double hashing when generating an address.
To get this address, you have to find a such EC point, that will produce such SHA256 hash, which in turn will produce 160 zero-bits RIPEMD.
So, 1111111111111111111114oLvT2 is valid BTC address, but no one knows its key, and it may well be that such a key does not exist at all.