Address: 1111111111111111111zxnxU6BF

Script: 76a914000000000000000000000000000000000000746588ac

Total Lost: 0.0001098 BTC

Transactions: 2

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
591a48ad3d10950fde63e4cceda7e62fba8ba78cec7aa25b3da8f3b72cfcf70a 396252
0.0000548 BTC
now $3.43
0.0000548 BTC
7e8e651fc4ec76b87918ddfff059a0c3d18cbd501bf6fb2c871ddcc6c25991c2 318595
0.000055 BTC
now $3.44
0.000055 BTC