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legendary
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Today at 01:48:12 AM
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Why people sending btc to this address?

Bitcoins sent to these addresses are gone forever. There are a few reasons whey people might send to a burn address. Primarily, sending to a burn address proves that you spent the bitcoins and got nothing in return. Some people send just like some people might burn a $100 for show in a video. Many of the bitcoins sent to 1111...4oLvT2 were sent accidentally due to software bugs.

Why it called burn wallet?

It is called a "burn address" because bitcoins sent to it can never be recovered. They have been "burned".


What is burn wallet?

A burn address is an address with an unknown private key. It is not possible to prove that the private key for a burn address is not know, but we can be pretty certain that the private keys for these addresses are not known because addresses that have private keys must be mostly random and those addresses are far from random.

Burn addresses are easy to construct. In short, you set all but the last 6 characters in the address to the text that you want and then compute the last 6 characters as the checksum.

The person that owns the address used vanity address generator to generate the address with high computational power equipment. If the person generated it with the right vanity address generator software, the address is very safe just like the normal bitcoin addresses.

Burn addresses such at those cannot be made with a vanity address generator.
legendary
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January 23, 2025, 11:58:11 PM
#9
so, Why people sending btc to this address?

1. an easy way to burn bitcoins (The only way to spend bitcoins from these addresses is to know the private key and there is no known private key for those addresses.)
2. Sending messages via Bitcoin addresses: There is a better way via OP_RETURN
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January 23, 2025, 10:04:43 PM
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The person that owns the address used vanity address generator to generate the address with high computational power equipment. If the person generated it with the right vanity address generator software, the address is very safe just like the normal bitcoin addresses.
It is a burn address and there are tools to create burn addresses that are very easily than creating valid Vanity addresses for use.

How to create a vanity burn address?
legendary
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January 23, 2025, 07:22:47 PM
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The person that owns the address used vanity address generator to generate the address with high computational power equipment.
No. They are not vanity addresses.
A vanity address has a known private key and is different from addresses posted by OP. Whoever created those addresses doesn't know the private key assosiated with them and can't access the fund sent to them.

For generating a vanity address, you start with a random number (private key) and derive an address from that. You repeat the same thing again and again until you generate an address with the desired pattern.
Addresses posted by OP are known as burn addresses. For having such addresses, all you need to do is calculate and use the correct checksum so that the address is valid.
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January 23, 2025, 06:45:02 PM
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The person that owns the address used vanity address generator to generate the address with high computational power equipment. If the person generated it with the right vanity address generator software, the address is very safe just like the normal bitcoin addresses.
I think I am also learning from here and I will also want to ask something more here to know, now this vanity wallet creation does it comes with seed phrase or key or password. And is this the first type of wallet address creation methods?
From your statement that is what I understood. Please do not be mad at me, I don't know much about wallets.
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January 23, 2025, 06:29:08 PM
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https://forum.stacks.org/t/why-is-1111111111111111111114olvt2-used-as-the-burn-address/14663

How did this address come into being 1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE?

The link above will help clarify your question
People send Bitcoin there to 'Burn' them that is sending to wallet address that can't be accessed.
In a nutshell there's no existing private key for them
So they can be considered lost.

People do it to reduce the total supply of Bitcoin.
legendary
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January 23, 2025, 05:31:20 PM
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so, Why people sending btc to this address?


What _act_ is trying to say here:
The person that owns the address used vanity address generator to generate the address with high computational power equipment. If the person generated it with the right vanity address generator software, the address is very safe just like the normal bitcoin addresses.

Is that it might not be a burn address, as vanity addresses can be generated and used just like any other bitcoin address.

So, the answer to why "people" are sending to this BTC address, is for the same reason anyone sends/receives bitcoin on any other address (unless you want to do some blockchain analysis), who knows Smiley
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January 23, 2025, 05:23:42 PM
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so, Why people sending btc to this address?
legendary
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January 23, 2025, 05:19:26 PM
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The person that owns the address used vanity address generator to generate the address with high computational power equipment. If the person generated it with the right vanity address generator software, the address is very safe just like the normal bitcoin addresses.
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January 23, 2025, 05:16:03 PM
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I want to know about this address 1111111111111111111114oLvT2 .
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/1111111111111111111114oLvT2

The address has over 668.7 btc and over 220k tx.


1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr
2130BTC 3k tx

1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE

Why people sending btc to this address?
Why it called burn wallet?
What is burn wallet?
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