Transaction 4228c789ee824307a7148b1c4bf094f7dd0717fbeb5f4ffd391cfcde18a4fe38

Block #806839

2023-09-09 07:17:41 +0000 UTC (~9 months, 24 days ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.00000546 BTC🔥


Inputs
bc1p0ds50a2lf74qh28ad08k0zgr7jl4t6dp4f29vw6swyvwf5n7vuwsk74sh2
0.00000546 BTC
now $0.33
0.00000546 BTC
1 7b6147f55f4faa0ba8fd6bcf678903f4bf55e9a1aa54563b507118e4d27e671d witness_v1_taproot
bc1p0ds50a2lf74qh28ad08k0zgr7jl4t6dp4f29vw6swyvwf5n7vuwsk74sh2
0.0023016 BTC
now $140.09
0.0023016 BTC
1 7b6147f55f4faa0ba8fd6bcf678903f4bf55e9a1aa54563b507118e4d27e671d witness_v1_taproot
Outputs
1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE
0.00000546 BTC
now $0.33
🔥0.00000546 BTC🔥
OP_DUP OP_HASH160 759d6677091e973b9e9d99f19c68fbf43e3f05f9 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG pubkeyhash
bc1p0ds50a2lf74qh28ad08k0zgr7jl4t6dp4f29vw6swyvwf5n7vuwsk74sh2
0.0022506 BTC
now $136.99
0.0022506 BTC
1 7b6147f55f4faa0ba8fd6bcf678903f4bf55e9a1aa54563b507118e4d27e671d witness_v1_taproot

How did this transaction 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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Raw Transaction
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  "hash": "5d02b1a842ba3b2035aad88bb4a749ea36c03defa86e46679051ede8975ee99a",
  "version": 2,
  "size": 303,
  "vsize": 203,
  "weight": 810,
  "locktime": 0,
  "vin": [
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      "vout": 0,
      "scriptSig": {
        "asm": "",
        "hex": ""
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      ],
      "prevout": {
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          "desc": "rawtr(7b6147f55f4faa0ba8fd6bcf678903f4bf55e9a1aa54563b507118e4d27e671d)#epv6qypw",
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          "address": "bc1p0ds50a2lf74qh28ad08k0zgr7jl4t6dp4f29vw6swyvwf5n7vuwsk74sh2",
          "type": "witness_v1_taproot"
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      "prevout": {
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        "scriptPubKey": {
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          "desc": "rawtr(7b6147f55f4faa0ba8fd6bcf678903f4bf55e9a1aa54563b507118e4d27e671d)#epv6qypw",
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        "desc": "addr(1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE)#6yunqau7",
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        "type": "pubkeyhash"
      }
    },
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