0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 is an easy address to remember. It’s also an easy one to enter by mistake. All it takes is one fat finger on the zero button and your ERC20 tokens are winging their way to an address where they are destined to remain for all eternity. It doesn’t help that some wallets used to default to this address until they’d been configured. “Is there any way to get the golem I sent to [the genesis address] back?” asks one Reddit user. “I was transfering my tokens from my ethereum wallet to my ledger nano s and forgot to input an address before hitting send. Ethereum wallet apparently sends to [the genesis address] as a default. Has this happened to anyone else?”
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https://news.bitcoin.com/500-million-mistakenly-sent-ethereums-genesis-address/
Oh my and I was annoyed when I sent 10 sbd to steem wallet lol