Address: 11111111111wZGRsZzwa6ajjAVLkT

Script: 76a91400000000000000000000028f000000027369672088ac

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
a58c2ad59e3577f4138b7c0706ffc7966f5a277c7c7ececf5be4189f187cfd87 360560
0.00000548 BTC
now $0.34
0.00000548 BTC
82b557a71c8f0c7882d8aea2638e717feaa6dbc0a8da6fd239512b5a8d2a8657 319162
0.000055 BTC
now $3.44
0.000055 BTC