Has any illegal data been saved in the Block Chain, such as an illegal number, or illegal prime?
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1While seeing the Bernank's face in there is repulsive, I don't think it is criminal. http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=BUB3dygQ – Stephen Gornick Apr 19 '12 at 00:35
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While working on my master thesis I used the AACS encryption key (09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0), considered an illegal number, as a basis for creating a fake Bitcoin address - 1ujTAfEQh2obwdt72GrmXonakx2RxvYpX. A 1 Satoshi transaction was sent to that address from address 17TQLZvXjKTrUyRnV9DuQs4RVDgNjUPeXQ. The transaction was encoded in block 177653.
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Wouldn't it be easier to just have the hex string 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0 be the private exponent? That makes the unused address 1KyKqNh9fM5sN8uWDLXNv2o52sqj94GhbN. (Generated using brainwallet.org) – lurf jurv Feb 06 '13 at 03:33
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@lurfjurv But then you are not storing the illegal number, but some derivation of it which is technically not illegal. – ThePiachu Feb 06 '13 at 05:54
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Oh. How does 1ujTAfEQh2obwdt72GrmXonakx2RxvYpX represent that number, then? – lurf jurv Feb 08 '13 at 16:07
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2@lurfjurv It's hash160 (as in, hex version of the address that is a part of the block now) is 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c000000000 . – ThePiachu Feb 09 '13 at 08:54