Address: 1111111111111115xtagWowUVaapf

Script: 76a914000000000000000000000000000058595a20000088ac

Total Lost: 0.00012056 BTC

Transactions: 4

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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0.00000548 BTC
now $0.34
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8b1a6e6a41938221c14c892b928cb97be23d11ffc467f553658f99087b438574 361002
0.00000548 BTC
now $0.34
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aa9ebdfe8fae4526902c9bd92a3c277c0de1325e5438b49c43947c673e17239c 333498
0.0000548 BTC
now $3.43
0.0000548 BTC
363ca997c63824a3d86fa92527c3d34a84a18bb304063207a24d219efb30abfa 333498
0.0000548 BTC
now $3.43
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