What's the story behind the large (10+ BTC) sends to the famous empty-redeemScript example address in 2017?

What's the story behind the large (10+ BTC) sends to the famous empty-redeemScript example address in 2017?

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External question — Bitcoin Stack Exchange Author: Aaron Zhang Original post: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/130845 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. The well-known anyone-can-spend example 3J98t1WpEZ73CNmQviecrnyiWrnqRhWNLy received several large (10+ BTC) deposits in mid-late 2017 that were immediately swept. Most traffic to this address is tiny test/mistaken sends, so 10+ BTC stands out. Does anyone know the backstory of those large sends — mistaken transactions, deliberate burns, faucet/exchange errors, or something else? Trying to understand the funding side, not the sweeping
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