Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize

Quote from: Gatekeeper on July 06, 2014, 05:49:09 PM

that imports as
https://blockchain.info/address/1MtR9nBGfWBLY23q4dRGRjjzBBiEdxRmC3

if they are not valid addresses then that is a fatal flaw in the blockchain because it's showing as a valid address and you could send coins there

If you edit the address it comes back as checksum not valid, so it clearly does check the addresses and says that this one is valid. If it's not then blockchain is fucked

eg:
https://blockchain.info/address/1MtR9nBGfWBLY23q4dRGRjjzBBiEdxRmC2 is not valid (change 3 to 2 at end)

This is not true, there are extremely large number of BTC address that no private key hashes to. If private key (WIF) checksum is wrong, no decent wallet should import it. For instance look at this BTC address:
https://blockchain.info/address/1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE
You can send money to it, but you can never retrieve coins from it. There are thousands of transactions like that in the blockchain.