Transaction 159d9697d9c542af4036e22897b7b4ba8ff986548f8be642b54faf948e9050c9
Block #339234
2015-01-16 18:06:03 +0000 UTC (~9 years, 7 months ago)
BTC Burned: 🔥0.00075868 BTC🔥
How did this transaction burn BTC?
The 0x00 Public Key Address
The 1FYMZEHnszCHKTBdFZ2DLrUuk3dGwYKQxh address is a Pay-to-Public-Key-Hash (P2PKH) address that is derived from a public key that solely contains the byte 0x00. This is the point at infinity on the secp256k1 elliptic curve, and is not a permitted public key1.
This results in any BTC sent to this address being irrevocably lost, as it is impossible to generate a signature that will validate against the 0x00 public key.
Over the years, a handful of bugs2 in wallet applications have resulted in users inadvertently sending BTC to this address.
ECDSA Incompatibility
The Bitcoin Protocol relies on the secp256k1 elliptic curve for its cryptographic operations. This curve belongs to the larger family of elliptic curves.
Bitcoin also employs a number of hashing operations such as SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160. These operations are used in various places across the protocol, including in the creation of addresses and their corresponding Bitcoin Scripts.
In some cases, it is possible to select values that are invalid for the secp256k1 curve as inputs to the hashing operations. This can lead to unexpected results, such as the creation of addresses that can be used to receive BTC, but are never able to spend it.
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"hash": "159d9697d9c542af4036e22897b7b4ba8ff986548f8be642b54faf948e9050c9",
"version": 1,
"size": 226,
"vsize": 226,
"weight": 904,
"locktime": 0,
"vin": [
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"prevout": {
"generated": false,
"height": 338569,
"value": "0.00233172",
"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 09748bdcf6197263c5cb8522942823c482e9b2a3 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(1rzhWUU7LP9iyyeas4hT223kogqy6w67G)#w5z3wh3n",
"hex": "76a91409748bdcf6197263c5cb8522942823c482e9b2a388ac",
"address": "1rzhWUU7LP9iyyeas4hT223kogqy6w67G",
"type": "pubkeyhash"
}
},
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}
],
"vout": [
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"value": "0.00147304",
"n": 0,
"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 7f4cfc978befdf217fafab49b00f255f3376ba74 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(1Cc73VVfwZpa4gaFSR6Y9B1NuUYs9APXeP)#tfwz29ly",
"hex": "76a9147f4cfc978befdf217fafab49b00f255f3376ba7488ac",
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"type": "pubkeyhash"
}
},
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"value": "0.00075868",
"n": 1,
"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 9f7fd096d37ed2c0e3f7f0cfc924beef4ffceb68 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
"desc": "addr(1FYMZEHnszCHKTBdFZ2DLrUuk3dGwYKQxh)#gvyw8dzc",
"hex": "76a9149f7fd096d37ed2c0e3f7f0cfc924beef4ffceb6888ac",
"address": "1FYMZEHnszCHKTBdFZ2DLrUuk3dGwYKQxh",
"type": "pubkeyhash"
}
}
],
"fee": "0.00010000",
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"time": 1421431563,
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