Address: 1111111111114h7k7xoMHCXeCfHEJ8

Script: 76a91400000000000000000000002c5265666572656e6388ac

Total Lost: 0.000055 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
353735ccf9f04ae3e2f8c6667215c10b1f85748628120545d8b92c4b9b000468 318638
0.000055 BTC
now $3.44
0.000055 BTC