Address: 111111111111111111AMXmxkqDAw

Script: 76a9140000000000000000000000000000000000f6d60088ac

Total Lost: 0.00011 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
4d1a2fea8512c97519d363d9753b4a4f88244c7fe28fc319b437ece9a55afc35 319650
0.000055 BTC
now $3.46
0.000055 BTC
4269fdef141de55a61b770fa7f082f3ff497fcd4b44e9ab26410ef056a369531 314003
0.000055 BTC
now $3.46
0.000055 BTC