Address: 1AMbentest4XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX12Jn3J2

Script: 76a914669e6080d7d1d235b552facacd0aa83ac440ad9388ac

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
eb08e3373548fabb5026de7adfa9a8f36a5a5eee66c90a051fc87d995014593b 299178
0.0001 BTC
now $6.29
0.0001 BTC