Yeah just create an address that is impossible to generate from a private key. E.g. - bc1iamaburnaddressHgLxD67NK… or something like it.
You could also do a 1 million year timelock or something. But if you don’t have some other lock on it based on a key that you probably don’t have, then there’s no way to really stop the key from being used & no way to verify the key doesn’t exist or was destroyed. The basic and common option is just creating a burn address, which just proves there was no chance the person generated it from a real/known private key, and thus no one can unlock it.
TheGuySwann / Guy Swann
npub1h8…6rpev
2024-03-22 11:47:58
in reply to nevent1q…8t0m
Author Public Key
npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpevPublished at
2024-03-22 11:47:58Event JSON
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"content": "Yeah just create an address that is impossible to generate from a private key. E.g. - bc1iamaburnaddressHgLxD67NK… or something like it.\n\nYou could also do a 1 million year timelock or something. But if you don’t have some other lock on it based on a key that you probably don’t have, then there’s no way to really stop the key from being used \u0026 no way to verify the key doesn’t exist or was destroyed. The basic and common option is just creating a burn address, which just proves there was no chance the person generated it from a real/known private key, and thus no one can unlock it.",
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