Alright, who's the lurker from VICE http://motherboard.vice.com/read/someone-rickrolled-the-bitcoin-auction-for-nsa-exploits
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?