Address: 1AMbenchanXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX11NuJ8W

Script: 76a914669e607c5eb4ba77cb780e4899b8d4335d8daf6388ac

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
bc6abec88f684eddc901f59a618184eefe9de96882ffafdaca7d69eb6592bd27 314356
0.0001 BTC
now $6.26
0.0001 BTC
0eeaf11ce677eebf7a4af75c3aa7e01293748df55d769709b04f7379dc16e7b3 298040
0.0001 BTC
now $6.26
0.0001 BTC