Address: 1AgentsPrincessLeiaRacesHomewxuNTT

Script: 76a9146a38e6b0dfb2a42eb82a9c2bbab7ffe0f8b062f388ac

Total Lost: 0.000162 BTC

Transactions: 3

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
7a490604bf21c0aed127246353dac3046a137041beb91704274d453b2cc15752 481447
0.0000543 BTC
now $3.40
0.0000543 BTC
049d3f750c7a275ece3921dfd6bd0c69b6beba1d983ea653e8bc0981b53ecfae 481447
0.0000543 BTC
now $3.40
0.0000543 BTC
143a3d7e7599557f9d63e7f224f34d33e9251b2c23c38f95631b3a54de53f024 306204
0.0000534 BTC
now $3.35
0.0000534 BTC