Address: 1JamatrixTheTurdBurg1arXXXXV8agN2

Script: 76a91403534291e144c808db7934072a47b3f3bf8510bd88ac

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
fd888745d4cb6e32e70b1d1c30efa6887b1b45d6a466990aacb9010508d929d5 288040
0.001 BTC
now $62.58
0.001 BTC