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It's possible. We did a cursory look for the destination address to see what was happening. If I were a whitehat looking to educate people I would publish the d
by andrewla 8y ago
It's possible. We did a cursory look for the destination address to see what was happening. If I were a whitehat looking to educate people I would publish the destination address with a message saying what had happened, and probably send the coins back to one of the testnet faucets. As it was it looked like our coins went to a single-use address and sat there, which seems like more of a black-hat strategy.
I don't remember the address we used, though. Here's [1] a similar one, for "correct horse battery staple" -- the funds were moved (in the same block) from the address to a single-use address where they sat.
[1] https://live.blockcypher.com/btc-testnet/tx/835509e51ab9054ed22ee6a80084a45afc33cf0f56fae18bd778269863806c05/ https://live.blockcypher.com/btc-testnet/tx/835509e51ab9054e...
- pm7 8y ago> I would publish the destination address with a message saying what had happened Bitcoin does not support embedding messages in addresses (and embedding messages in transactions is controversial as it will be stored in blockchain forever, so many block explorers do not render such messages to discourage it).
- andrewla 8y agoI mean publish in the old fashioned sense - put it on a web page so someone could google it.