Transaction 4b4a6a035a888978e020e6d159a730cc9817cd4c8b2a8e50c62f93a06d822a67

Block #164199

2012-01-28 08:31:49 +0000 UTC (~14 years, 5 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.0155 BTC🔥

Inputs

Coinbase: 046bb2234f010a2c4d4d3d3d3dcaf1fad6c362685378c73ab1d5b3025d92bb13ff6a979ad5f2dad45683aeab0100000000000000

Outputs

410491f1583d268974782734faa2be7e7955c6aff8dea15fbc21663c07d434d8117378d8ee78b7e6f22a37274f2362f7358addbf68415972900aa187153a4321d898ac

0491f1583d268974782734faa2be7e7955c6aff8dea15fbc21663c07d434d8117378d8ee78b7e6f22a37274f2362f7358addbf68415972900aa187153a4321d898 OP_CHECKSIG pubkey

How did this transaction burn BTC?

Coinbase Reward Loss

For a variety of reasons, some blocks do not claim their full block reward.

The Bitcoin Protocol and reference Bitcoin Core implementation only require that the sum of all outputs in the coinbase transaction are less than or equal to block subsidy + transaction fees for that block. They don’t require that all of this entitlement is claimed by the miner.

Over the years, numerous misconfigurations and bugs in the systems used by miners to generate block templates have resulted in under-claiming of the block reward. Not only is this a loss to the miner, but it also reduces the total supply of Bitcoin that will ever be mined. There is no mechanism to claim unclaimed rewards after the block in which they were supposed to be claimed.

On rarer occasions, bugs in the reference implementation itself have led to losses - notably, the Genesis Block, Block 91722, and Block 91812 block rewards were claimed but destroyed due to bugs in the Bitcoin Core implementation at that time.

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Raw Transaction

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