Address: 11GoingXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaeLbCD

Script: 76a914000d319c1aab2a33bc1c02c5958c5903ce4c58d488ac

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
5456b14d79cd9f4cf3e68511fcada988f3ea3e177e562f3cb75e0ba301319203 156434
0.00000001 BTC
now $0.00
0.00000001 BTC