And assuming those 18BTC are indeed burned....wow.
If some wallets are able to send funds to this address, then the corresponding checksum must be valid
— which implies that someone has access to the correct private-public key pair. It’s virtually impossible to blindly create
athe vanity address with a matching checksum by chance. Interesting development -
$48M Israeli-Linked Hack. Could these two events be related?
State ftw
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