Address: 1111111111111n2iL75V4qrhYXd7z

Script: 76a91400000000000000000000000029242a220000000088ac

Total Lost: 0.0000548 BTC

Transactions: 1

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
d5802a0fba2cc76349b891b9f2bf317bc3e03c6d564b1b0eb519d2eb9b9e0439 335290
0.0000548 BTC
now $3.43
0.0000548 BTC