Address: 11111111111111111119fEivzRC

Script: 76a914000000000000000000000000000000000000116388ac

Total Lost: 0.00012 BTC

Transactions: 3

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
580353524975746eb4eaf3e4a30c668ccd9df2dba9e06d5a0d842bdbb1b104b2 336725
0.00001 BTC
now $0.63
0.00001 BTC
e436ebdaf78f5e7f1bfd39ac215bc4391f8a2eca5f43f92980a61c86eab5dadd 319161
0.000055 BTC
now $3.45
0.000055 BTC
8fa33a3cd1b38e0529e848efd88f75d787c76436fee7863e636588794e0a1e6b 318601
0.000055 BTC
now $3.45
0.000055 BTC