Address: 11111111111iiRUDpPQCW5NDPFnYjr

Script: 76a914000000000000000000007177717772717772717288ac

Total Lost: 0.0001 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
8391977a4050e7d60af3af77e91c7a296e6b261f3442552e88b2f9d4728e44ac 262414
0.0001 BTC
now $6.27
0.0001 BTC