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Re:Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi... by nullc on Sunday January 07, 2024 @06:43AM (#38900425)
An address is essentially a random number, it would be as safe to send to a random number they generated as one that Satoshi generated.

Now using it further from there might indeed be problematic... but also a champaign problem.

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Re:Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi... by OJFord on Sunday January 07, 2024 @06:46AM (#38900443)
Yes but random throws someone random under the bus (potentially) and doesn't carry the bragging rights GP suggests.
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Re:Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi... by nullc on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @07:52PM (#38934669)
I wasn't suggesting they could pay to someone else. They could pay to their own address at no more risk than paying the genesis block address.

The risk to them comes when they try to spend the funds later. They'd always have the option of dumping them on something unconnected to them for bragging rights with relatively low marginal risk.

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