Quote from: _act_ on Today at 02:42:24 PM

Quote from: mcdouglasx on Today at 01:21:21 PM

I just read it on this site, thanks for the information, although I don't really understand the context or where you got the private key thing you shared in your message because it doesn't make sense to me that that address has a known private key, the probabilities are extremely low, plus it seems to be an invalid WiF.

You are right that the private key is not generated but just an address to burn bitcoin sent to it. I did not reply the person that posted it has a private key because the person has not been reading what people are posting on this thread. I have read about this outside this forum also and they called it burned address but even anyone that knows about vanity addresses should know that the address do not have private key.

I suppose that whoever burned the btc wanted to symbolize it with references other than Bitcoin, since if he had tried a little harder with brute force he could have built a valid burn address using all the characters, such as:

1BiTcoiNtaLKFoRuMBurnLeGAcyAddRbye

Quote from: bullbandit9 on Today at 01:59:29 PM

The chance of this address having a generated private key is 0. The vanity address is too long.

To be statistically exact, it is not absolute zero but almost.