Bitcoin Burn Addresses: Unveiling the Permanent Losses and Their Underlying Causes
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Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Bitcoin Burn Addresses: Unveiling the Permanent Losses and Their Underlying Causes by
Ciro Santilli 36 Updated 2025-04-24 +Created 2025-03-24
By Mohamed el Khatib and Arnaud Legout.
Both autors were at Inria Centre at Université Côte d'Azur, Mohamed the intern and Arnaud the Inria researcher employee.
Cool, this method could reveal novel P2FKH images:208,656 addresses suspected to be burn addresses because they have a low Shannon entropyUnfortunately their method might not be well suited for finding images, later on:
Our model identified 7,905 true burn addresses from a pool of 1,283,997,050 addresses with only 1,767 false positive.
Data for their results can be found at:
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