Address: 1NewbiecoinXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXDN67UA8

Script: 76a914ed879bd090da1f6c57ff50f47400ce3a4f53731a88ac

Total Lost: 1.31817 BTC

Transactions: 8

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
b68f26cdd8adfc41ee7b8678715c9838e05d86931b0d17cc02c9243b56a309e6 307594
0.5 BTC
now $31,403.10
0.5 BTC
79a8a01a921f8c7e29d3d9baa96dff5e2a2904332cbbc7830f1fdfae75598a41 307362
0.3 BTC
now $18,841.86
0.3 BTC
dcd54d53c96acda36cbd0893597b41bf045a5190b07bc65b16a91a8695853b06 307034
0.2 BTC
now $12,561.24
0.2 BTC
490096b869295904e732ad5efa0072d0259911bb4febd1a956550cc547c90575 306320
0.005 BTC
now $314.03
0.005 BTC
0fd0e05641a3065737e60e1da1e5f5c80b0cbd7ff5510dcd48bc54946c1d2568 306320
0.01 BTC
now $628.06
0.01 BTC
51762ad53ab6d392171a4a7d5527a598d0b95b3f5a21d6e224f69ecb3cc30ed1 305568
0.3008 BTC
now $18,892.10
0.3008 BTC
e04d4814fbd9448255103c7d2934e0998bb598b67519862cb60f343a88c9f2f0 304814
0.002 BTC
now $125.61
0.002 BTC
3836f4b09d32e9ad21d54925a5881a52063ca9af6d9c12dcdadb07ed2ed9bc87 303626
0.00037 BTC
now $23.24
0.00037 BTC