Address: 1111111111111111111rzei1aas

Script: 76a914000000000000000000000000000000000000646588ac

Total Lost: 0.0001296 BTC

Transactions: 4

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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f70f71570ff6534603b57b5da3e5b6573df858c8b48ac901b4615e2dd177b6e6 399062
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c8895ca6fc5a45861e0eba5267b4898064a012a2e0e8373d3ccdcad290925759 392827
0.0000548 BTC
now $3.43
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48325415cd95e3d8ee18ceb356ef963c691aedf09410d08b8e85c00ca9912e54 382761
0.00001 BTC
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0.00001 BTC
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0.00001 BTC
now $0.63
0.00001 BTC