Address: 1FuckYouDrakavion11111111113mDNBA

Script: 76a91402d1bed3c13686d5957545fc4d87cbaabd687e9d88ac

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
1ab43a7ce1e6e442c4c7e1c046563219881c49114e21c19b390a1ecc3687d9ea 287827
0.001 BTC
now $62.62
0.001 BTC