This week, the number of Ordinal inscriptions has exceeded 11 million, with one inscription in particular, numbered 11,035,214, standing out. The inscription bears a message that has been signed with the private key associated with block 1,018, and while the key is quite old, having been linked to the computer scientist Hal Finney, this isn’t the first time someone has used this specific private key from 2009 to sign a message.
Mysterious Messages Signed With Hal Finney’s Keys Puzzle Cryptocurrency Community
In November of 2022, a post on bitcointalk.org caught the attention of many in the cryptocurrency community. The user, who went by the name “Onesignature,” had published a message that was signed with a specific address created on January 19, 2009. This address, known as “1NChf,” had held the block reward of 50 BTC until June 14, 2011. It’s believed that the computer scientist Hal Finney was the one who mined Block 1,018 and spent the subsidy, combining it with severa
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