Address: 1111111111111111116dB1DRktM

Script: 76a9140000000000000000000000000000000000028f0088ac

Total Lost: 0.00001 BTC

Transactions: 1

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
612ff15ac59f9e7df12d4f469a92f6650d6a118fa6369d9743073958dd7401db 336377
0.00001 BTC
now $0.63
0.00001 BTC