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		hippich on Feb 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1 bitcoin worth more than dollar plus - there is slight chance someone will generate same private/public key combo and suddenly "find" "lost" coins =)

po on Feb 10, 2011 [–]

Except bitcoin has no way of marking a coin as "lost" so if you did generate that combo, everyone would be in agreement that it already belongs to a lost wallet.

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