Address: 11111111111111doM8vPnmycQC8q

Script: 76a91400000000000000000000000000028f000000027388ac

Total Lost: 0.00012 BTC

Transactions: 3

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
9d779eeaedcef7ee95fc01e8f63bc3d7c18247e29ea1a5a79f243d50159faa95 336725
0.00001 BTC
now $0.63
0.00001 BTC
ed521a854985ca1cb4c52b419eb25512914a616dc09f0901cf0d5a34e547271a 319161
0.000055 BTC
now $3.45
0.000055 BTC
74e9f5e6679ffd7bde196de41fb7cb2be812e5dc1d2fad9176c0c40a9d82a1a9 318601
0.000055 BTC
now $3.45
0.000055 BTC