Address: 111111111111111149EM9zxGWLCvL

Script: 76a914000000000000000000000000000000f6d600010088ac

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
c01aa06b75b62f98990c1ab9745abce14f6ffd53279c7fdf561e9ca6b961ee2c 317850
0.000055 BTC
now $3.45
0.000055 BTC
675b06dbf9cf970447bf734fc1a8746545f87575ff82ea357dc3f6fdef0a6e2c 317836
0.000055 BTC
now $3.45
0.000055 BTC