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September 07, 2024, 05:32:29 AM
#43
Details of this one item:

WIF uncomp: 5JgC6gcHCkyBqmgbyarpFHBHzpfNkZYKNJA3piM42ZYbvCUc1fW
WIF comp: L11yz5piWu4zrGDoNkSsY2QS2DNP1GdE4ziwTbVWMteV7g7f8RhP
addr uncomp: 1LxPSrR3t8mFLKKsb8W3PxBP77WDmxWPyK
addr comp: 17iXQPBDASPrfN3tQfGEMhBZN3Rreuz6vW
pubkey 130: 04D23B03FFF149F69CC9C5813B1F2F4550DF93E44CE3D2E273C18653A71DF454662805C0F759799 F1E84D4DEAD60F1C4E5C0E023B8916D4FA62C5D02A8F47DD5F5
pubkey 66: 03D23B03FFF149F69CC9C5813B1F2F4550DF93E44CE3D2E273C18653A71DF45466
pvk: 7151048F7EDC2AB2399C0FD0B0DCE404F06231FB8EB44616454D6B2D7EE28876
there was balance - https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/1LxPSrR3t8mFLKKsb8W3PxBP77WDmxWPyK
no balance - https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/17iXQPBDASPrfN3tQfGEMhBZN3Rreuz6vW

other addresses:
17iXQPBDASPrfN3tQfGEMhBZN3Rreuz6vW
3QvHnN5f1ky5Yg3tmozee7oeKeLtT2MAyT
bc1p83e0jgs402g4wg86w6h5yjtuk0d8v83wyrchrxu45n8a4nn9tt4sg9gt3c
bc1qfx4nqweynxuts7y98umdgxtqvh0n68d38dqw6y
bc1qmtjqz22jnfeze9nzzqxc0dsr9mk8qw3vw02fcs
legendary
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Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
September 07, 2024, 02:03:14 AM
#42
Code:
addr=1HZwkjkeaoZfTSaJxDw6aKkxp45agDiEzN
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From time to time someone sends some sats to this address
We all know "not your keys, not your coins", but some people are just not made for that. Even this year, someone sent $224 to this address. Thanks to full RBF, most of it is burned as miner fees (1,293 sat/vbyte) and whoever drained it only got $21.

If I am not wrong, there are websites that have some private keys being shared or posted because I tried accessing one of it
So you're saying you copied a private key from a website, but you may be wrong that such sites exist? Must reach that signature quotum, right?
I've removed your post. This board is not for discussing centralized shitcoins.
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September 06, 2024, 06:02:31 PM
#41
If I am not wrong, there are websites that have some private keys being shared or posted because I tried accessing one of it (bnb network) and I tried sending a very small amount of bnb to the wallet address that didn't even reach 1 dollar but once it was in the wallet ehen the bnb was transferred right away. Although I have seen it myself but I never knew what they did use or how they monitor the wallet but it is true that leaked private keys are being monitored and in btc, the same thing goes as well.
There are bots that I believe are just built for such activity. I have encountered one myself with a friend's wallet, which got compromised due to his carelessness running after airdrops. Once you make any single deposit to withdraw whatever you have in that wallet, the bot will automatically move the funds over to another wallet, and in most cases all the transactions are sent to just one wallet. 
 
Recently, there is one new but old pattern of scam where the scammer will post their seed phrase online with a good amount of holding on them, and when you try to send a gas fee on whatever network the fund is located, it's either automatically moved out or you can't even move it out yourself because you don't have the complete access key to carry out such a transaction.
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September 06, 2024, 05:04:20 PM
#40
I remember once participating in a discussion on Facebook and a member posted a WIF private key as a joke, when I went to import this private key into Electrum, the server took several minutes to synchronize, as there were more than 800 incoming and outgoing transactions.

When I saw this post, I remembered all the lore surrounding this address, it's a private key of a standard brainwallet, probably with an empty string.

Addr I'm referring to:
Code:
addr=1HZwkjkeaoZfTSaJxDw6aKkxp45agDiEzN
priv=5KYZdUEo39z3FPrtuX2QbbwGnNP5zTd7yyr2SC1j299sBCnWjss

This is a known address, it's the default example from brainwallet. The person who sent it there either made a donation to the wrong address or made a big mistake, unfortunately.

Since it was probably a mistake, it should be returned, but we all know that doesn't happen (much often...). I guess we live and learn, unfortunately the amount of coins was significant.

This address once received 50BTC, it is not known if it was a donation or a mistake that some unlucky person made.

A blank passphrase creates the following Address/Private key combination.

1HZwkjkeaoZfTSaJxDw6aKkxp45agDiEzN / 5KYZdUEo39z3FPrtuX2QbbwGnNP5zTd7yyr2SC1j299sBCnWjss

Someone sent 50 BTC today to this 1HZwkjkeaoZfTSaJxDw6aKkxp45agDiEzN...

https://blockchain.info/tx/65e1ce741c6f756cf0c36b49a59ba77d7aab82b09acde63c4052bbd6bf1c7050

Within 10 minutes it was moved out...

https://blockchain.info/tx/84ef741c9178a62ca405c7addefe3805ac443dcef1ee3051e5a0a18e1a65cc30

From time to time someone sends some sats to this address and it is emptied instantly, it's certainly monitored by monitoring bots.

It could also be someone practicing dusting attacks...
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September 04, 2024, 07:49:38 PM
#39

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I'm hoping pbies can tell me where the private key comes from.

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I am gathering many things related to Bitcoin (WIFs, addresses, pvks, pubkeys, seeds hex, mnemos) and surroundings and as I can recall I was converting addresses<=>WIFs when I stepped into that 5JgC6gcHCkyBqmgbyarpFHBHzpfNkZYKNJA3piM42ZYbvCUc1fW WIF.

As I remember it was some stupid conversion like making WIFs from addresses or the oppostie using Base58Check both ways and so on.

That's all the story.
legendary
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December 01, 2023, 10:10:03 AM
#38
Things will get quite interesting once full RBF becomes commonplace. Any such transaction stealing coins from a brain wallet or leaked private key could be replaced by another transaction, regardless of whether or not is opted in to RBF. We could end up seeing different bots broadcasting more and more replacements, each paying a higher and higher fee, trying to steal the coins for themselves. Since there is no incentive for any one such bot to surrender and let another bot win, then such transactions could just escalate until the entire value (or close to it) is paid in fees.
It looks like this is becoming a reality:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/139btc-im-looking-for-the-owner-its-important-5476101
bc1qn3d7vyks0k3fx38xkxazpep8830ttmydwekrnl
IAJdBrmsgwWQU6IFXu1jC77GJuDguNv82ERXT2R8UywQZ7565idpdZpxjWflFVCnrjEfAJC5YcSnQUa jrgdmaZc=

claim 83BTC refund fee from antpool

That's going to be interesting if several people claim to be the real owner. In that case following the coins up the chain and signing a message from one of the earlier addresses will be more convincing.



My take on what happened:
Address bc1qn3d7vyks0k3fx38xkxazpep8830ttmydwekrnl received funds, which were immediately transferred again. That happens to every compromised private key, and many bots must be competing to be the first to steal funds. Usually, they use a high fee. In this case, my guess is that since more and more nodes accept full RBF, this lead to a very high transaction fee. Eventually, miners will get all stolen funds and the "private key hunters" will only be left with crummies. I hope the real owner can convince Antpool he's the real owner, so they don't send it to any of the private key hunters who also have the same private key.
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May 06, 2023, 09:30:29 AM
#37
I knew the puzzles, but didn't catch the upgrade. For who also missed it: this transaction sent about $25 million to these addresses. That makes it worth it to allocate much more processing power to cracking the puzzles.
Crazy Cheesy
Well, It's not about more power, of course anyone could use hundreds of high end GPUs to solve for example #125, the point is to find a way to solve it with the help of mind not silicon. Now that you said it, $25M is too much yet very little to spend for safety analyzing.

I wish I knew how to automate and sort data processing like you, lol I have millions of public keys I just look for collisions with my eyes.🤣
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May 06, 2023, 07:40:37 AM
#36
I knew the puzzles, but didn't catch the upgrade. For who also missed it: this transaction sent about $25 million to these addresses. That makes it worth it to allocate much more processing power to cracking the puzzles.
Crazy Cheesy
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legendary
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May 06, 2023, 07:17:55 AM
#34
900 bitcoins to puzzle addresses
Link?
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May 06, 2023, 07:12:45 AM
#33
On April 16, someone sent 0.09BTC to an address with publicly known private key. It disappeared instantly with a $12 fee. Someone earned stole $2700 from this.
Yeah, a lot of other things happened that day, for example the same certain someone (Satoshi) sent around 900 bitcoins to puzzle addresses to increase the prize of solving them, and you know how he is, he likes to tip people with Gs, $. 😉
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May 06, 2023, 06:58:28 AM
#32
On April 16, someone sent 0.09BTC to an address with publicly known private key. It disappeared instantly with a $12 fee. Someone earned stole $2700 from this.
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April 05, 2023, 07:21:50 AM
#31
good for cold emails
I'm not in the business of spamming people.

Actually.. that is a good reminder and insight. I will make sure we never spam crypto audience.
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April 05, 2023, 06:28:46 AM
#30
good for cold emails
I'm not in the business of spamming people.
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April 05, 2023, 06:10:07 AM
#29
have you tried collecting all 'email addresses' posted on bitcointalk including the ones in spreadsheets? some of them include emails

it is legal as posted on public and good for cold emails
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March 11, 2023, 12:37:14 PM
#28
What happens if you send some coins and turn off RBF, only the first thief could get them right?
If you send funds to a compromised address, RBF doesn't matter. The thief uses CPFP and will turn off RBF (in his transaction) to prevent another thief from outbidding him.
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March 11, 2023, 12:27:24 PM
#27
What happens if you send some coins and turn off RBF, only the first thief could get them right?
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March 11, 2023, 10:30:59 AM
#26
Maybe the same guy who sent the coins to the exposed private key address, he himself swept the coins again. Maybe he's doing that for fun to create drama. Because the coins are swept instantly. Not even a minute after the receiving the coins
Unlikely.
It's much more likely someone did something dumb, and many bots tried to sweep the coins at the same time. One of them was fastest and got the money.
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March 11, 2023, 10:01:34 AM
#25
Yesterday, 1BoatSLRHtKNngkdXEeobR76b53LETtpyT received 0.02429915BTC, which was instantly swept with a 0.001BTC fee.


Maybe the same guy who sent the coins to the exposed private key address, he himself swept the coins again. Maybe he's doing that for fun to create drama. Because the coins are swept instantly. Not even a minute after the receiving the coins
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March 11, 2023, 02:46:22 AM
#24
Yesterday, 1BoatSLRHtKNngkdXEeobR76b53LETtpyT received 0.02429915BTC, which was instantly swept with a 0.001BTC fee.

I tried something new: I pruned Bitcoin Core to 20 GB, then imported the list of private keys, and did a rescan on the past few months. This shows only the recent transactions, and as a result the wallet is 11 MB instead of 2 GB. Bitcoin Core now works as expected without getting too slow to use.

Right when I wanted to post this, a "fatal error occurred" and Bitcoin Core crashed. The debug.log doesn't make sense:
Code:
ERROR: ProcessNewBlock: AcceptBlock FAILED (System error: filesystem error: cannot create directories: Permission denied [/home/user/.bitcoin/blocks])
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ForceFlushStateToDisk: failed to flush state (System error while flushing: filesystem error: cannot get free space: No such file or directory [/home/user/.bitcoin/blocks])
After reloading, it works again. I've never seen this before.
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