Address: 1111111111112NBzrcNMJZmZQmqkvm

Script: 76a914000000000000000000000010646573630000014488ac

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
b4dd1b496d7a59e8213207c831cb2bed79c225dfbb883c2640a04eb242cf980e 334770
0.0000548 BTC
now $3.44
0.0000548 BTC