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by liminvorous 1605 days ago
Sending currency to non-existant addresses is how people encode arbitary data on the bitcoin blockchain, so definitely possible.

Giving a person control over the funds allocated to their smart contract probably opens holes where they can steal the smart contract's money, though obviously creating software that handles money and can't be updated is its own kettle of fish.

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The thing is, the address exists - only (probably) nobody has its private key.
Why would one need to send to non-existent address? Any transaction can include data, one can donate for example.