Address: 1EricLombrozoXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWACBVB

Script: 76a9149800c0443e5233251994f88fd0db705d3dcd511888ac

Total Lost: 0.025 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
dea183908e40e0cebfee6a0d8362b299e07cf193fbc02ffd3308b43781eca208 154637
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87b34e465fb96d7c73345e1a3b14e4326905e850fa5ab569bf2b3f4ec650214c 154630
0.01 BTC
now $628.20
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65a3a76d26b9ba82d1419368311727d46452341bd62c3de543eb79a7b918642b 154630
0.01 BTC
now $628.20
0.01 BTC