Address: 1esto1no1anda222222222222222jbh5F

Script: 76a9140729dfb8cdc2fd7e95954c3b9e1151f0eb6aecb588ac

Total Lost: 0.0000142 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
ed43a622dca855590cc7867b78df861eed96f964af0cbb0359a9e651cefc5eeb 284994
0.0000142 BTC
now $0.89
0.0000142 BTC