Address: 111111111119CCphoemtXugYN3zrXr

Script: 76a914000000000000000000001649454320687474703a88ac

Total Lost: 0.0000648 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
2bd3cd0a29d83439cb74e14acc9f404910c2d46e38aba0dce008ff5e9abc5451 399062
0.0000548 BTC
now $3.43
0.0000548 BTC
f09cdd486f5395e29d811a28d63f5393772be5666bb01df5163309910c377092 336378
0.00001 BTC
now $0.63
0.00001 BTC