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an immutable black hole might as well be a shredder. the OP in the reddit did precisely that. that money is GONE. locked away forever. it has not been transferr
by hootbootscoot 5y ago
an immutable black hole might as well be a shredder. the OP in the reddit did precisely that. that money is GONE. locked away forever. it has not been transferred to anyone else.
- capableweb 5y agoIndeed, an "immutable black hole" could be described as a shredder, agree. But that's not what that address is. The semi-official "black hole" address for Ethereum is 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (https://etherscan.io/address/0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 https://etherscan.io/address/0x00000000000000000000000000000...), currently has $29,461,295.02 worth of ETH in it. Any other (valid) address is just another address on the network.
- kristjansson 5y agoWhy do you see a difference between colloquial usage of ‘black hole’ and ‘valid address from which tokens cannot be retrieved’?
- SantalBlush 5y ago"It's not a black hole, because black holes are collapsed stars, which is clearly not what we're talking about." This is basically the style of argumentation being used here. Frequent equivocation over the terms "valid" and "black hole" to avoid addressing anyone's actual point.