Address: 12ofThe1Thing222222222222221wv1hge

Script: 76a91413cb5d78265fd017d05ec44446749aeb24407f9988ac

Total Lost: 0.00020001 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
57d43778ff225de4dbcfeeb6a37b72b8d05d356f3340b15fe6baa7eeba556245 330515
0.0002 BTC
now $12.56
0.0002 BTC
3bbd94d22346a3bfb44257293e10c3b5c9ee39230c1cd358bdce2bf03c61ba0b 154965
0.00000001 BTC
now $0.00
0.00000001 BTC