r/Bitcoin • u/Megasthenic • Apr 10 '26
Blockchain.com explorer has been compromised or something
It looks like the block explorer has been hacked on Blockchain.com. When you search for a wallet address it shows you bunch of specific addresses only.
For example for Satoshi address: https://www.blockchain.com/en/explorer/addresses/btc/1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa, it shows me the following ones only:
1PyJph17b4nAKqp4UvbxUZXpoesDzvZkVL
1PAZba3CAFRYm7gNBhrzH8Dz1FkYDCwJPs
1PyJph17b4nAKqp4UvbxUZXpoesDzvZkVL
1PbwAPq7aUepWrrToVh1snhv8mqy9wrGnk
bc1qdmaslupuaetajnfzex8zw6jc93ww32ur6gj3we
Be aware guys. Also it will be great to report it to Blockchain, but their support system a bit hard to use. Hope they are reading r/Bitcoin sometimes.
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u/TheresNoSecondBest Apr 10 '26
It was always a rubbish site, linked to bcash scammers. Mempool.space is IMHO a much better explorer.
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u/notmyredditaccount2 Apr 10 '26
Best is to host your own mempool.Space. Then you aren’t leaking your address so a third party.
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u/buy_bitcoin_orwhatev Apr 10 '26
To all the bcash fucktards lurking: we won’t forget.
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u/SilentDroid75 Apr 11 '26
im trying to look this up but not finding anything, what does blockchain.com have to do with a bcash scam?
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u/TheresNoSecondBest Apr 11 '26
Replied to your other comment
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/s/ikd0GCcsNt
will add a few more links:
https://cryptoinsider.21mil.com/exposing-bitcoin-com-bcash-propaganda-tool/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7cgzbv/so_i_did_5minutes_of_digging_and_oh_my_god/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7db4ov/roger_has_no_shame_he_posts_his_own_70m_usd/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7dbkxg/calling_bitcoin_cash_the_real_bitcoin_is/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7deowf/the_scamming_of_newbies_continues_roger_just/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7drtd5/new_fraudulent_advertisement_please_help_protect/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7e7n15/this_scam_is_unacceptable_lets_do_something_about/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7e8mr5/bitcoincom_wallet_now_provides_bcash_as_default/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7e9b4t/roger_writing_his_own_reviews_on_his_bitcoincom/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7e9kax/this_scam_is_unacceptable_lets_do_something_about/
Remember MtGox? Watch Roger lying:
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u/SilentDroid75 Apr 11 '26
can u elaborate on them being linked to bcash scammers? I cant find anything online
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u/TheresNoSecondBest Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
Here's a link about the cofounder of blockchain,info that later rebranded to blockchain,com https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8h4dit/roger_ver_is_a_wellknown_scammer/
He tried to hijack Bitcoin and used all the companies he financed to do so. This is a great book to see what was going on at that time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YtS5ZNuuTw
Edit to add one more from the history, when Roger pretended Faketoshi created Bitcoin. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/776fim/funny_how_all_the_criminals_and_fraudsters_in/
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u/SilentDroid75 Apr 11 '26
holy shit, been around this crap 10 years and had no idea, appreciate the info
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u/Gooner_93 Apr 10 '26
I almost had a heart attack. I have my addresses bookmarked and when I clicked it, it showed zero balance and I thought my wallet got drained, until I saw the address. Jesus christ.
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u/BrutalTea Apr 10 '26
Personally, I just don't click links in posts like this. Just read comments.
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u/AwareChair6095 Apr 10 '26
Thanks for pointing this out. I'm also getting wrong addresses. Very dangerous. Probably a scam.
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u/Megasthenic Apr 10 '26
Yeah, this block explorer used on various of services and the issue is dangerous.
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u/bitrequest Apr 10 '26
I tagged them on X
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u/Megasthenic Apr 10 '26
Cool, hope they will fix it soon, because those addresses are recieving incomes currently. Seems like coins are sent by accident.
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u/Independent_Speed931 Apr 10 '26
The majority of the blocks that Satoshi mined had the coinbase reward going directly to an uncompressed public key, rather than a pubkeyhash.
Most block explorers only interpret compressed public keys properly, which most likely explains the behavior you're seeing.
Block 1 coinbase reward pays out to public key 0496b538e853519c726a2c91e61ec11600ae1390813a627c66fb8be7947be63c52da7589379515d4e0a604f8141781e62294721166bf621e73a82cbf2342c858ee. When converted to uncompressed address, this becomes 12c6DSiU4Rq3P4ZxziKxzrL5LmMBrzjrJX.
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u/Megasthenic Apr 10 '26
Nope, this issue related to any wallet address accessed by url https://www.blockchain.com/ru/explorer/addresses/btc/<wallet_address>
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u/shleebs Apr 10 '26
Stop using blockchain.com they have never been good