Address: 1AMpauLXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWzywCd6j

Script: 76a91466a92c3fde133b0d7be02dd240ac917dcfb6755988ac

Total Lost: 0.0001543 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
6962a85869bedf4675a029680db8723d9f7d0bd0acc93e1eb76755ae4d6a8a7e 468289
0.0000543 BTC
now $3.41
0.0000543 BTC
d2f79b6b222a0a7de5292e16c4824ac08ea2067ff27aed7f0843d32671750dbb 314368
0.0001 BTC
now $6.28
0.0001 BTC