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Bitcoin address from 2011 transacts after 12 Years Dormant
400 sats \ 5 comments \ @fbv000 14 May 2023 bitcoin
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @l0k18 14 May 2023

Look at the funny addresses in past transactions... someone spent a bit of time making those I think.

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23 sats \ 0 replies \ @random_ 14 May 2023

Hints to a website. Interesting.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @shibe 14 May 2023

Those are vanity addresses. You can generate a legacy P2PKH address with a few funny letters in the start fairly quickly using a GPU (see vanitygen-plusplus https://github.com/10gic/vanitygen-plusplus). I tried generating a Taproot vanity address but to no success since it doesn't support GPU acceleration for that yet so it was slow.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fbv000 OP 14 May 2023

Yes it seems reusing address was more common back then

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 14 May 2023

We have seen a few of these lately.

Someone getting into old keys or key recovery getting sophisticated enough to unlock previously lost keys?

Maybe those are the same thing but one nefarious and the other not so much.

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