139 Bitcoins have from 2011 moved to a new Segwit address on May-11
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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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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