Address: 1Tommy1SGreedyXXXXXXXXXXXXXUaCcpi

Script: 76a9140511dbb93f64b7e42215477ea5510553095260ec88ac

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
c94dab9b4db69b00701387e8d7e68a6df6174d16fe21982d433b42e43983120a 287831
0.001 BTC
now $62.52
0.001 BTC