Address: 1AMdemoXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX14ugQed

Script: 76a91466a00bd489ec642fed26920dad2039eb5c427ed688ac

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
224a9b219b31d0bc4621765a9f087302beac0af3d5b703ec247c92e94d7363ee 298041
0.0001 BTC
now $6.28
0.0001 BTC