Address: 1AMbenteztXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWzz3nejr

Script: 76a914669e6080d7f819fc54b1aeb611a979313c30076288ac

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
e7e9c010a6b75ab523df5adba56457fb12c883f0d1b40e6365beba27aa1cb6b1 298015
0.0001 BTC
now $6.27
0.0001 BTC