Address: 11111111111112fhY5eX3SQ11dYWzA

Script: 76a91400000000000000000000000058595a200000000088ac

Total Lost: 0.0001296 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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Transaction ID Block Height Amount
ebaa9e3454f0a84887376001d97ae34014bf0e9b54d51811d8c310d422f2cf91 400016
0.0000548 BTC
now $3.43
0.0000548 BTC
ea2a4400d935747f47c310d4ff3a5eb90cb3343fed6fd55aaf6daf69e1d383fe 400016
0.0000548 BTC
now $3.43
0.0000548 BTC
d068ed789823988676cdb513a09596634f3376e19f15ca97f0338a9f6596405e 336380
0.00001 BTC
now $0.63
0.00001 BTC
509a84f4f0e3af5b906bfe3ec148a5db8031b6ca14fae87c5c9adbdb7a710b05 336380
0.00001 BTC
now $0.63
0.00001 BTC