Address: 1AMbenXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX111dCKD

Script: 76a914669e607aeb5dd542af570fb23e7f43294eb1aa5288ac

Total Lost: 0.0002 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
e34bd9404bb91e79018f065719231803f536e374913f64eec993d5acae75c84e 316583
0.0001 BTC
now $6.26
0.0001 BTC
dabc98c9c37eea8dcb9622bcfc0c04ba04ea9f2893410c94eb942379efbb589e 299184
0.0001 BTC
now $6.26
0.0001 BTC