Address: 1JeSuisChar1ieXXXXXXXXXXXXXXZCQPGy

Script: 76a914c18f281a5624acd232b94aab76508859a7c5ae3488ac

Total Lost: 0.012 BTC

Transactions: 1

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
7dcd0538ad7bdcdb79d7d0244cf4ff002b46779e5594fe8b84fd1939d9770999 338016
0.012 BTC
now $753.44
0.012 BTC