Address: 11ForeverXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWcSE4Z

Script: 76a914000c5c6954abe32c5bce398489708ea2a5acbc5288ac

Total Lost: 0.00000001 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
31331de21d321766fcac556d7233ad0e3918bc78c7af22b99373569c07d4f30c 158772
0.00000001 BTC
now $0.00
0.00000001 BTC