Address: 1AMben1testXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWzuksvHt

Script: 76a914669e60729c2596f0143034ee99aa51d83337b86e88ac

Total Lost: 0.0001 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
d94ef2dbfc2030c1439c5dc4e70c882144f764e4ea63e1303440f4fa02067043 298031
0.0001 BTC
now $6.26
0.0001 BTC