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Re: 1111111111111111111114oLvT2
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o_e_l_e_o
on 14/03/2023, 14:01:53 UTC
There is no hardware/ and software in the world capable of generating 17 character prefix address
Absolutely, but there is also absolutely nothing stopping me from generating that address (or a similar one) by random chance. The chance that I generate the private key for that address is exactly the same as the chance that I generate the private key for any other address. Any coins on that address are not provably burned.

Also do you know how many zeros could RIPEMD-160 algo produce for a 160 bit hash? I guess it's not generating a certain fixed value.
RIPEMD160 always outputs 160 bits, which is 20 bytes. If someone used the output 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000, then that would generate the address in this thread's subject - 1111111111111111111114oLvT2. Coins on this address are spendable - you just have to find the private key which gives the pubkeyhash 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000. But coins on the locking script I gave above are not spendable, because there is no RIPEMD160 output which will ever output 0.