Address: 111111111111111111121xzjPWX1

Script: 76a914000000000000000000000000000000000000766988ac

Total Lost: 0.00006028 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
07a5b00c4c2c1825bc93ff80b5bacfa83c4ef507e64092ce0b1ba92309e2678f 361002
0.00000548 BTC
now $0.34
0.00000548 BTC
7e7f87911b09194c251128e370da385329c6f38a0100bf837468638680b2eb5d 333499
0.0000548 BTC
now $3.44
0.0000548 BTC