What could someone do with the private keys of empty Bitcoin addresses? - page 2.

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Quote from: LeGaulois on August 05, 2019, 02:00:32 PM

A long time ago I remember an altcoin giving coins for free, but users needed a fairly old BTC address (something similar,). If you do a search on this forum, you could find some old similar topics because it's how I found the reason. Pretty sure he has the same.

I believe you're talking about ClamCoin

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WHAT ARE CLAMS?
If you held a balance on May 12th 2014 in a BTC, LTC, or DOGE address then you most likely already have CLAMcoin waiting to be dug up.

Source: https://clamcoin.org/

I remember websites like Freebitcoin were buying addresses years ago to do the same.

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A long time ago I remember an altcoin giving coins for free, but users needed a fairly old BTC address (something similar, I don't remember exactly, sorry). If you do a search on this forum, you could find some old similar topics because it's how I found the reason. Pretty sure he has the same.

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Exemple:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/buying-your-bitcoin-wallet-addresses-2060938
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/buying-old-wallet-addresses-and-private-keys-bitcoinlitecoindogecoin-1157425

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I believe there are several altcoins with it

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I'm using the keys to collect an old dead altcoin: LottoShares. LottoShares were fully premined and distributed to funded BTC/LTC/Doge addresses at the time

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Someone in the Digital goods section is buying private keys of empty Bitcoin address which had balance of over 40 BTC or more. And the requirement to have the first transaction in between 2009-2018. Please check here: Archive

They are paying very handsome amount too.

Quote from: bitaddress on August 05, 2019, 12:35:42 PM

Some tend to believe that they can trick others (maybe authorities?) with claims they had Bitcoins in the past but they don't have anymore. I have some hunches, but nothing clear (and I don't want to give better ideas to others too). However, very shady things.

(Also there are the forks, you know..)

And seems like we both have no clue however I am interested to know the possible usability one could have by spending that much money for some private keys which for me (possibly for you too) have no value at all. Can we figure out a possible project from this case?

Cheers,

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