Address: 11111111111111112Uw1np8d342YV

Script: 76a914000000000000000000000000000000746578740088ac

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
06b91b11b15df519994c8876cd4146a2fa868389cd9769fcaa22d9cbcfac9cee 319650
0.000055 BTC
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0.000055 BTC
ae44be39a5c3052a0bbad0fe4023e49d63dc523f0b1b0d762794b792155d49d1 314003
0.000055 BTC
now $3.45
0.000055 BTC