Address: 1BitcoinKicksAss1111111111114BbAUx

Script: 76a914759d6677093aa15378646a418196f95f3c3c2c8c88ac

Total Lost: 0.00020004 BTC

Transactions: 5

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
57d43778ff225de4dbcfeeb6a37b72b8d05d356f3340b15fe6baa7eeba556245 330515
0.0002 BTC
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0.0002 BTC
d4b143406bb7659fb38c721ec3201724cc31ec837cc0b45c75faf923590cfafc 154950
0.00000001 BTC
now $0.00
0.00000001 BTC
d44e5ff1f9bbb0943e36e2c1801b1d45b1f944e6d57e645321790ef2f2d38581 154950
0.00000001 BTC
now $0.00
0.00000001 BTC
1ce5ff6f47372aae6e0b6decd9f26ae21b34ff6e5903692514f8aec80a4a3d2d 154912
0.00000001 BTC
now $0.00
0.00000001 BTC
6122be7f0879927065ab3ab9d9cf55d56711ae012f9c9cae753ba18baf7b580c 154907
0.00000001 BTC
now $0.00
0.00000001 BTC