Address: 1EstuvoAqui2222222222222221zorpAi

Script: 76a914029fe47deaac8f62124c9385cdfce57eefcb5a7b88ac

Total Lost: 0.00001 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
ed0852a78057c92bbf2892f787584ee2d16273574ce49aa9f150e8ba152a6c94 285046
0.00001 BTC
now $0.63
0.00001 BTC