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Board Electrum
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Re: Electrum doesn't see/recognize a certain wallet private key
by
pooya87
on 03/01/2023, 04:32:52 UTC
⭐ Merited by Charles-Tim (1)
I guess somebody cracked it somehow, got the fifty and let people know the private afterwards.
Wrong.
There was a miner who has been mining in early days and at some point in 2011 they decided to consolidate all their block rewards into one [aurl=https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/567a9a7f9191db644a09985fad113dd6ee770eac69454317430e694305be9c56?i=22]output[/url] which they continued to mix/spend from over time. The only reason why that private key (of the already empty address) is known today is most probably because the real owner sold it later on to a shady person on the internet who wanted to pull some sort of scam or possibly used it to claim some shitcoin (like CLAM or something like that) and it got leaked.