Address: 11111111111111111111BZbvjr

Script: 76a914000000000000000000000000000000000000000188ac

Total Lost: 0.01035064 BTC

Transactions: 8

How did this script burn BTC?

Burn Address

Bitcoin addresses are generated by base58 or bech32 encoding the hash of a public key or script, along with a version and checksum.

As the encoding is directly performed on this hash value, it is possible to generate a valid address for which the pre-image public key or script is unknown. This is known as a burn address.

This is commonly done to create a visually distinct address, and to demonstrate some level of “nothing up my sleeve” transparency. The hash values are picked to be values that are improbably to have been generated by chance (due to the immense computational power required to find a pre-image that hashes to a specific value).

While some burn addresses were used in Proof-of-Burn schemes, the majority of burn addresses are simply vanity addresses used to simply burn coins or encode a message into the blockchain.

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Transaction ID Block Height Amount
bedc214c36f2a0689068aa6935d83b5f4cfb7c65cece89c8bb354eb5046d9013 638375
0.00006852 BTC
now $4.30
0.00006852 BTC
7a74ce2c9e5fba19159ebfe0c28e77c8776690afd7bf2fb65bed1bb7ed9adb29 475109
0.00000001 BTC
now $0.00
0.00000001 BTC
a79dbc3379ceb50291147f714edf2a0c3e5f4f6ddd17faf413fb3476c9e30f3c 475099
0.00000001 BTC
now $0.00
0.00000001 BTC
6240f61bbaeac66cd623e921a153addaf5f379a996f2de0f0c6506d628fe3812 417354
0.0000273 BTC
now $1.71
0.0000273 BTC
b4dd1b496d7a59e8213207c831cb2bed79c225dfbb883c2640a04eb242cf980e 334770
0.0000548 BTC
now $3.44
0.0000548 BTC
57d43778ff225de4dbcfeeb6a37b72b8d05d356f3340b15fe6baa7eeba556245 330515
0.0002 BTC
now $12.54
0.0002 BTC
2c3050b7eb9b0a659a93f72e701b2cb17224af03bb42978ca3b0d2b6ffadc3d8 135681
0 BTC
now $0.00
0 BTC
659517b7eeec4dd1bcc2167f00ac57a1843208ad090f7a2e9c2603bd34ac13e6 120411
0.01 BTC
now $627.24
0.01 BTC