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. Because there is no valid private key associated with a zero-length public key, these funds are considered permanently unspendable and "lost". Common Software Bug

library and early Bitcoin wallets had constructors that blindly accepted empty byte arrays, resulting in this specific address being generated by default when a key failed to initialize. Ghost Addresses 1ht7xu2ngenf7d4yocz2sacnnlw7rk8d4e

: This specific address is generated by applying the Bitcoin address algorithm to a null public key (an empty string). 1ht7xu2ngenf7d4yocz2sacnnlw7rk8d4e

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