Address: 1PAYbenXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWzzRFRXP

Script: 76a914f320e319d6dbc7875d2298dd35c183c415c2b86088ac

Total Lost: 0.0001666 BTC

Transactions: 4

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
a222d9bb0adc814e1cc157f274931341f6c15b6ab29b7efd10bb97fbfb1c730f 297932
0.00001 BTC
now $0.63
0.00001 BTC
06705a8df6dc19d40fcbac31db102219c9f583e76c3d744a2bf6709dd7e28fc8 297929
0.00009 BTC
now $5.66
0.00009 BTC
dc203bc2e20abb5fb863d2a507bc69241a179245505940851f6201aeef9af06c 297926
0.0000082 BTC
now $0.52
0.0000082 BTC
32b2d5d615459a21247845d3609c8be419876b7f3d38e9e3e3ed50af11719ff7 297907
0.0000584 BTC
now $3.67
0.0000584 BTC