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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: Sudoku777 on September 08, 2013, 10:19 pm
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So recently i surfed on blockchain abit and found this one adress i couldnt click, aperently i think it was deleted?? I didnt know you can delete your BTC adress.. how is that possible? Would help alot in hiding your shit wouldnt it?
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There is no such thing as deleting a bitcoin address.
Bitcoin addresses start existing on the network when first seen in a valid transaction. The person with the matching private key can transfer bitcoins from that address. It is even possible to generate a valid bitcoin address without knowing the private key (nobody would be able to transfer bitcoins from that address).
If the private key for a certain bitcoin address is lost, the address becomes unusable (though bitcoins can still be transferred to it). This happens all the time and there is a significant amount of bitcoins that has been 'lost', but there is no explicit 'deletion' of the address. Remember there is no central authority for bitcoin addresses.
I guess this doesn't fully answer your question - I don't really know what you observed in the blockchain, but it was not a 'deleted' address.
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Well what i observed was simply that i found an address on the blockchain that i simply couldnt click.. it was like it got deleted or something, i couldnt click it anymore, so i could also not see where the funds went that got send from the known adress to the now unknown one..
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I dont think its possible to do so
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On blockchain.info you can go-to receive money then click actions - archive address, I think this is what may have happened.
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maybe its a old one from one of the mobile aps that had massive security flaws and as such they have dis activated them i know my old one from my phone is useless now