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Nate Eldredge
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Invalid public key was spent! How was this possible?

From previous questions this bitcoin 1FYMZEHnszCHKTBdFZ2DLrUuk3dGwYKQxh address had an invalid public key of "00" and was unspendable but the coins are now spent?? The invalid key was generated by a bug in the wallet software the owner was using and should have been "locked" due to the invalid key

see link to the owners original query https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2t3vn0/i_cant_send_my_btc_a_triangle_apear_i_use_multibit/

also see link to a paper that lists that this is an invalid key https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/734.pdf?from=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2Fpubs%2F204914%2F734.pdf

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