I honestly don't see how. A transaction has an orgin, which is verified to have the coins, and a destination, which is a public key that must have a private key. AFAIK every public key has a computable private key counterpart.
But please correct me. 2011/7/7 Taral <[email protected]> > 2011/7/6 lodewijk andré de la porte <[email protected]>: > > I find the phrasing very strange. You cannot "destroy" a bitcoin, only > > render it practically beyond recovery. You could still recover it by > > figuring out which account's full of money and brute forcing their > private > > key from their public key and transaction log, it's not likely to be > > feasable anytime soon though. > > As I said earlier, it is entirely possible *at the protocol level* to > create transactions that transfer money into black holes that are > unrecoverable -- no amount of crunch will recover them. None of the > generally available interfaces expose this, however. > > -- > Taral <[email protected]> > "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you." > -- Unknown > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography >
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