Address: 1111111111111111DqZY8mA89eZz

Script: 76a914000000000000000000000000000000116370727488ac

Total Lost: 0.00006048 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
84fe320ec6c822fce7354cd7958188ee0ea62fae6a709eac56431f8195a8824c 360560
0.00000548 BTC
now $0.34
0.00000548 BTC
c8b297f4d87911f30e6a1883f20929e85a2efe2b20414eddcb309b34e22cdddf 319162
0.000055 BTC
now $3.45
0.000055 BTC