Address: 1BdE3uE4xLqWHfrjuPWmAywshfBX8v7xA2

Script: 76a914748b204575bb7ceb6f05064fdf5d1a54a3b3a3b188ac

Total Lost: 3.14482423 BTC

Transactions: 16

How did this script burn BTC?

Lost Keys

The majority of Bitcoin is secured through the use of private keys. Wallet applications generate public and private keypairs, which are used to generate an address.

Modern wallets use deterministic systems such as BIP391 to generate a root key which is used to derive every subsequent key. Thus, ensuring you have a reliable, safe backup of the root key, typically a 12 or 24 word mnemonic phrase, is sufficient to recover access to your funds.

Before such systems were developed, most wallets stored each keypair individually. This resulted in a number of additional ways to lose access to your coins - old backups wouldn’t be able to recover any keys for addresses generated after the backup was taken, for instance.

Over the years, wallet applications have also had a number of bugs, leading to unstable key production, bad encryption, and other cases which inadvertently resulted in funds being directed to addresses without known keys.

Even if the wallets work perfectly, users do still lose access to their keys by neglecting to make backups or other mistakes. burned.money’s lost_keys group tracks cases for which there is a reasonable degree of confidence that the keys are genuinely and truly lost.

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Transaction ID Block Height Amount
d9bacb617e1efc7d1b6b2e2a65155e0f1abecefc0aad4e848758493b85854a23 475141
0.00000001 BTC
now $0.00
0.00000001 BTC
69388993e078c574e4dc345989412857acf629401f1630876aaa3e45d80dd9c0 475120
0.00000001 BTC
now $0.00
0.00000001 BTC
20c56337f234f016507e393066d48f56706168f401efac7a3178805c06838d99 224102
0.16093357 BTC
now $10,089.47
0.16093357 BTC
e1507dc1aac7dacf40d0d755f2087274f6d8b2ddb5fb90285cedec9ebe0dd6ab 222874
0.21873024 BTC
now $13,712.94
0.21873024 BTC
6ad62df665889de358f7cbfd1545f2acf4ebe51185ea68a4e406531e1d726e9f 221608
0.26280214 BTC
now $16,475.96
0.26280214 BTC
bcb14044b925e303c18d5cbae738d8244ec339641903d85dab22604bd9adb4eb 220414
0.20511655 BTC
now $12,859.45
0.20511655 BTC
978a39b6899afd5cc542793952c648d7f4e367dc09c48249e6f063b6f7e9fbce 219279
0.14356301 BTC
now $9,000.45
0.14356301 BTC
ae0393e3c1decc3c072967f866be6d2eabbd786c110681c5324bd14f7dc55a9d 218588
0.23124164 BTC
now $14,497.32
0.23124164 BTC
c19d32f8a93e4cfc6457dad5dc2405a710ed5009483ee820bd28e6f4a38905fa 217615
0.32179321 BTC
now $20,174.31
0.32179321 BTC
9ece1c8c1909d8d0b56facf15c461af96468ee25031557882987161ea4e0006e 216281
0.22773628 BTC
now $14,277.56
0.22773628 BTC
04cd204f8cc7e69a9cbe85d793ac906408a291c5552507ce4878f98f971342b0 215355
0.21722117 BTC
now $13,618.33
0.21722117 BTC
94b1539b909b1af3c8b22e9c3293d45099e821b2ee47fa83b95c904cd3212e49 214558
0.00000201 BTC
now $0.13
0.00000201 BTC
237bed462683b6b49a7d59b9010bc92e3285a3a8373fced4e16d74e282ed2491 214558
0.32346406 BTC
now $20,279.06
0.32346406 BTC
3a8f68d0993288213d566bd23ae1a36f420763186b4e172065aa2bbc6a135e90 214393
0.14645642 BTC
now $9,181.85
0.14645642 BTC
789071197302619ef50b55f7c24daffc96d01c950a9562d8d636765514f94b6e 212363
0.00000201 BTC
now $0.13
0.00000201 BTC
2b7e8173010182e8d32a28eb87aed5769b90d75d3a50b547b6dbb089163a8b94 212363
0.6857619 BTC
now $42,992.75
0.6857619 BTC