Address: 111111111111111as5NCrJeHqBHE

Script: 76a91400000000000000000000000000000a646573630088ac

Total Lost: 0.000065 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
9cc5f0b3c1474a3d246a81f39aca445fbe905fca37239db752120dbb91097055 338869
0.00001 BTC
now $0.63
0.00001 BTC
4ea4b0d22a1755b7758d58148754b235bf4d9fc96e22a7727c370487a7c04da3 272591
0.000055 BTC
now $3.45
0.000055 BTC