Address: 1PAYaLexXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWzw1NkfG

Script: 76a914f320de43c667679b91026079734b41dbd40c2e4688ac

Total Lost: 0.00002 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
b2a190b068a3cac02e5044fc0f14de56f925e89a4ae6e2397b4a86a2e8c2fc75 297936
0.00002 BTC
now $1.26
0.00002 BTC