Address: 111111111111MZT5sH8fKRHd9ShFAg

Script: 76a9140000000000000000000000f6d6000100000000d388ac

Total Lost: 0.00006048 BTC

Transactions: 2

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
2db17c93b7fd2111b34d1704dee3a9e54ee4e6a8276822c6cbaeeca74734c3e4 338882
0.00000548 BTC
now $0.34
0.00000548 BTC
d2e6709aa35d01522f6e1e127b6307cc9a3b5127bcf392b803873a8763216eb1 318638
0.000055 BTC
now $3.45
0.000055 BTC