Address: 1inTheWabeXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXY4msMd

Script: 76a91407e700b97350036dcbcefe69e0b80703837b795a88ac

Total Lost: 0.00000002 BTC

Transactions: 2

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
dd0fa624c68da72bf735631d7437c210c344dd629001f51db850526376b1c698 234128
0.00000001 BTC
now $0.00
0.00000001 BTC
bbd6cb302ec31d6e26666b5a2042a563a86265002222fafb602a56a6bb20d474 234128
0.00000001 BTC
now $0.00
0.00000001 BTC