Address: 11rregard1essSUCKSxxxxxxxxxxnWcVw

Script: 76a91400299e22b9fc43fd274d5582885e402a6220d3a688ac

Total Lost: 0.001 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
fe5498ba8e5f2281eec2796abbd6d757a107751ef808c47ddd8190ca645541fd 287828
0.001 BTC
now $62.59
0.001 BTC