Transaction 52997a4e9986bc0d3d59f31d5e6c6eba5d15bf7886be7b7dab8fcb673f6883de

Block #282802

2014-01-28 00:06:13 +0000 UTC (~10 years, 6 months ago)

BTC Burned: 🔥0.9999 BTC🔥

Inputs

1BVgPq4uGRyh5JAvofPvwtwaFK7pKD9NGT

OP_DUP OP_HASH160 731dc9f4962603acb83bca381280025d9f41c778 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG pubkeyhash

Outputs

1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr

OP_DUP OP_HASH160 818895f3dc2c178629d3d2d8fa3ec4a3f8179821 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG pubkeyhash

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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  "txid": "52997a4e9986bc0d3d59f31d5e6c6eba5d15bf7886be7b7dab8fcb673f6883de",
  "hash": "52997a4e9986bc0d3d59f31d5e6c6eba5d15bf7886be7b7dab8fcb673f6883de",
  "version": 1,
  "size": 223,
  "vsize": 223,
  "weight": 892,
  "locktime": 0,
  "vin": [
    {
      "txid": "bcb084ef0557917e34565bef909c4e8ed92fee3db69e919f2d483f46fbcf493b",
      "vout": 1,
      "scriptSig": {
        "asm": "30440220324ed024db68bade06340278f26c7ef8f262476d04208ce1782a727cd42408ed022054922e64880474f8df8f1ad22b2f4d7397f58069489b8008662af2b4dd82b26c[ALL] 04ab40402b0abde09f7859640b28cb0c19b28ff0ccf2eb408130c28a737e3294648a87420c43ef9d938a6b2edc4e4dea1e0308bfba86f3ff336ceb01f20e1447f2",
        "hex": "4730440220324ed024db68bade06340278f26c7ef8f262476d04208ce1782a727cd42408ed022054922e64880474f8df8f1ad22b2f4d7397f58069489b8008662af2b4dd82b26c014104ab40402b0abde09f7859640b28cb0c19b28ff0ccf2eb408130c28a737e3294648a87420c43ef9d938a6b2edc4e4dea1e0308bfba86f3ff336ceb01f20e1447f2"
      },
      "prevout": {
        "generated": false,
        "height": 282802,
        "value": "1.00000000",
        "scriptPubKey": {
          "asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 731dc9f4962603acb83bca381280025d9f41c778 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
          "desc": "addr(1BVgPq4uGRyh5JAvofPvwtwaFK7pKD9NGT)#dxsmzwdu",
          "hex": "76a914731dc9f4962603acb83bca381280025d9f41c77888ac",
          "address": "1BVgPq4uGRyh5JAvofPvwtwaFK7pKD9NGT",
          "type": "pubkeyhash"
        }
      },
      "sequence": 4294967295
    }
  ],
  "vout": [
    {
      "value": "0.99990000",
      "n": 0,
      "scriptPubKey": {
        "asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 818895f3dc2c178629d3d2d8fa3ec4a3f8179821 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
        "desc": "addr(1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr)#v66r8cp2",
        "hex": "76a914818895f3dc2c178629d3d2d8fa3ec4a3f817982188ac",
        "address": "1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr",
        "type": "pubkeyhash"
      }
    }
  ],
  "fee": "0.00010000",
  "hex": "01000000013b49cffb463f482d9f919eb63dee2fd98e4e9c90ef5b56347e915705ef84b0bc010000008a4730440220324ed024db68bade06340278f26c7ef8f262476d04208ce1782a727cd42408ed022054922e64880474f8df8f1ad22b2f4d7397f58069489b8008662af2b4dd82b26c014104ab40402b0abde09f7859640b28cb0c19b28ff0ccf2eb408130c28a737e3294648a87420c43ef9d938a6b2edc4e4dea1e0308bfba86f3ff336ceb01f20e1447f2ffffffff01f0b9f505000000001976a914818895f3dc2c178629d3d2d8fa3ec4a3f817982188ac00000000"
}