Alright, who's the lurker from VICE http://motherboard.vice.com/read/someone-rickrolled-the-bitcoin-auction-for-... On 8/18/2016 01:53, Georgi Guninski wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 04:52:09PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 09:17:09AM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:11:11AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
http://pastebin.com/NDTU5kJQ The auction live on air: https://blockchain.info/address/19BY2XCgbDe6WtTVbTyzM9eR3LYr6VitWK :D
Either way, fun to watch :) Much better than the Olympics ;)
The bitcoin addresses look somewhat weird to me. IIRC they are formed from some crypto stuff of the user and the user has _some_ control of it at least via bruteforce. I suspect the user can't chose the address directly.
Here are the addresses in the last transactions, spaces added by me:
1 never 9kNNkr27UseZSHnaEHg1z8v3Mbb 1 gonna V3MFNjymS4RGvUbHACstiS8aSYz 1 give GEk184Gwep2KT4UBPTcE9oqWzCVR 1 you KBMLEohsexdZtkvnTzHnc4iU7Ffty 1 up AbpBEWQ467QNT7i4vBMVPzSfQ3sqoQ 1 never 9kNNkr27UseZSHnaEHg1z8v3Mbb 1 gonna V3MFNjymS4RGvUbHACstiS8aSYz 1 1et AyypstpXLQpTgoYmYzT8M2foBSBe1 1 you KBMLEohsexdZtkvnTzHnc4iU7Ffty 1 down AsBbRQcBfUj8rgQomqhRsNFf1jMo ...skip some... 1 nice C9Xz1rBLvwcphRUVU4GEfaVzvTwa
Reading downwards, this makes sense in English in _consecutive transactions_ (except the last).
If the addresses were random, the probability of this happening appears very low IMHO, what does math say?
Is this known bitcoin joke/weak steganography?