Address: 11111111111jReUwMAxevLMq3CFYLU

Script: 76a914000000000000000000007366616661736661736688ac

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
50787523ea11bb9c3be78bccf4b75bf6c28c4b6b922bf70851f1de287bd2b6a4 262385
0.0001 BTC
now $6.25
0.0001 BTC